Canada and Mexico may be united in wanting to bring closure to North America's unresolved trading future, but they are diametrically opposed on how to solve Venezuela's political and economic crisis.
The cleavage between Canada and Mexico over the upheaval enveloping their broader hemispheric neighbourhood -- the meltdown of once prosperous Venezuela that has spawned a three-million-plus refugee crisis -- was on full display this week as lawmakers from both countries met in Ottawa to discuss their shared interests.
"It's a very complex issue because we believe -- the new government believes strongly -- in not intervening in the internal affairs of other countries," Sen. Hector Vasconcelos, head of the Mexican senate's foreign affairs committee, said in an interview. Many don't buy that rationale, pointing to the fact that the U.S. remains in lock-step with the Lima Group while the Trump administration refuses to rule out potential military action in Venezuela.
Mexico has offered to mediate between Guaido and Maduro to find a solution that's satisfactory to the Venezuelan people, Vasconcelos said. "If the armed forces decide to stop supporting president Maduro, then that would be finding an internal solution," he said, stressing that doesn't mark a departure from the current Mexican position. "Believe me there are reasons for this. And I think that Mexico derives benefits from that position even today after 100 years of trying to follow that line."
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