Héctor Astudillo assured that the United States Government revoked his visa for his criticism of Donald Trump’s tariff policies. The agency Reuters reported yesterday that 50 Mexican politicians and officials were affected by this provision.
Mexico City, October 15 (However).- The former PRI governor of Guerrero, Hector Astudilloconfirmed this Wednesday in an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva for Formula Radiothat he was one of the 50 politicians and officials to whom he Government of USA revoked their visaaccording to the agency Reuterswithin the framework of the President’s offensive Donald Trump against drug cartels.
In an interview for the media, the current coordinator of Political Liaison of the party Citizen Movement (MC), explained that his visa was revoked since last July 31, a situation that he attributed to certain criticisms against the policies implemented during the second period of Administration of Donald Trump.
“Indeed, my visa was revoked two and a half months ago, on July 31. According to an email that arrived, they tell me that my visa was revoked,” said Héctor Astudillo in an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva.
“I have not had information as to why. I have tried to find out the reasons and I have not had more information,” explained the former governor of Guerrero. However, in the same conversation Formula Radiosaid that one of the reasons why his visa was revoked could be because of his criticism of Trump’s tariff policies.
“I made some statements ten days before regarding tomato tariffs and then, when I spoke about tomato tariffs, (…) I made one more statement: that (Donald) Trump, President of the United States, was constantly speaking to his voters and that he had used Mexico to try to strengthen his figure (…),” he explained.
The statements referred to by Astudillo Flores were made on July 19 for the media The Sun of Acapulcoafter the United States Government announced the imposition of 30 percent tariffs on products from Mexico.
“The tariffs do not affect businessmen, they affect men and women, mainly the people of Guerrero who work in the fields of Sinaloa, especially in these critical times for the country,” the former governor said then.
Yesterday, October 14, the agency Reuters reported that the United States Government revoked the visas of 50 politicians and government officials in Mexico, but said media could not determine the names of the people affected by this measure. However, four public servants, including the Governor of the state of Baja California, Marina del Pilar Ávila, have confirmed this provision against him.
For her part, President Claudia Sheinbaum said in her morning conference on Tuesday that she did not have “personal information” related to the people involved, since the North American Government generally does not share information with its Mexican counterpart when carrying out a procedure such as visa revocation.