The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, called on the United Nations to assume its role to avoid bloodshed after the United States announced it would block oil tankers entering or leaving the country from Venezuela.

“A call to the United Nations to assume its role—it hasn't been seen doing so—to assume its role in preventing any bloodshed and to always seek the peaceful solution to conflicts; that is our position,” she said.

The Mexican president insisted that the position of Mexico, and of any Mexican president, in the face of international conflicts, must always be non-intervention and dialogue for peace.

“Because of President Trump's statement yesterday and the situation in Venezuela, we reiterate Mexico's position, in accordance with the Constitution, of non-intervention, non-foreign interference, self-determination of peoples, and above all, the peaceful resolution of disputes. We call for dialogue and peace, not intervention, to be used in any international dispute; that is our position by conviction and by Constitution. That must always be the position of any president of Mexico,” she reiterated.