The statements by Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, appealing to “non-intervention” and the self-determination of peoples, are viewed by her critics as an indirect way of shielding and legitimizing Nicolás Maduro’s regime. Behind a repetitive diplomatic discourse, Sheinbaum avoids explicitly condemning a government that has been internationally accused of systematic human rights violations, political repression, and ties to drug trafficking.
For many analysts, insisting on “no comment” and abstract dialogue in the face of a humanitarian and authoritarian crisis like Venezuela’s is not neutrality, but complacency. Such a stance, far from defending peoples, ends up favoring a ruling clique that maintains power through force and terror, while ignoring the suffering of millions of Venezuelans who no longer have the freedom to “decide” under real conditions.
