Dave Graham
(Updates with context, background)
MEXICO CITY, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Mexico’s president on Thursday blasted social media companies for blocking the accounts of President Donald Trump for his part in chaotic scenes in Washington on Wednesday, again appearing to cleave to his U.S. counterpart in a contentious dispute.
Four people died during the havoc that erupted after pro-Trump protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a bid to force Congress to block the appointment of President-elect Joe Biden, whose Nov. 3 election victory Trump has cast as fraudulent.
Many U.S. allies condemned the events at the Capitol, which Biden said bordered on “sedition.”
By Reuters Staff
(Adds context about foreign leaders not attending US inaugurations)
MEXICO CITY, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday he has not received an invitation to U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, when asked if he would travel to Washington for the Jan. 20 event.
“I don’t have an invitation, and I have decided not to leave (the country) much,” he told a regular government news conference.
Traditionally, foreign leaders are not invited to U.S. presidential inaugurations.
Lopez Obrador has only made one foreign trip in the two years he has been in office, when he visited outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump in July and praised his American counterpart for treating Mexico “with kindness and respect.”
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