The trouble started with the invite list. Mexico’s new president invited Russian leader VLADIMIR PUTIN, Venezuelan President NICOLAS MADURO and Cuban President MIGUEL DÍAZ-CANEL to her inauguration, drawing immediate ire from U.S. and European countries (). She also sparked a major row with a key European power after she opted not to invite Spain’s King FELIPE VI to the festivities, arguing he should respond for Spanish atrocities during the conquest of the Americas.
And since then, she has vowed to play hardball with the U.S. on issues like migration, trade and the future of bilateral security partnerships. Sheinbaum vowed at her inauguration that she would “always defend the grandeur of Mexico and promote relationships of respect, never of subordination” in her foreign policy.