Buenos Aires, Sep 15 (RHC) The Latin American and Caribbean Continental Network of Solidarity with Cuba came out against the position of former Mexican President Felipe Calderon (2006-2012) on the Antillean nation and described him as a bootlicker of the United States.

In a communiqué, the Network repudiated Calderon's remarks, who questioned the invitation extended by the head of State Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to his Cuban counterpart, Miguel Diaz-Canel, to attend the events for the bicentennial of Mexico's independence.

An imperialist cannot speak in the name of the independence, freedom, sovereignty and democracy of any country', said that space, stressing that the former Mexican president shows his well-known genuflection and boot-licking attitude to the United States, offends not only the investiture of the Cuban president but also attacks the history of the Mexican people and its historical relationship with the Caribbean island.

It is clear that he does so by assuming the role of spokesman for the empire, a role he disputes - among others - with the caricatured Luis Almagro, head of the U.S. Department of Colonies, said the text in reference to the secretary general of the Organization of American States.

The Network remarked that Calderón does not represent and has never represented the brave Mexican people. What he does represent, it said, is corruption, drug trafficking, the killings and disappearance of 60,000 Mexicans during his presidency and the scandalous

Calderón criticised AMLO for inviting Díaz-Canel to visit Mexico

to the International Monetary Fund which doubled the country's foreign debt, in addition to being a specialist in electoral fraud.

That is why it is not strange that the media aligned with the White House and oriented from the U.S. embassies propagate each one of the insults that this sad character issues against Cuba. The well-known saying ''Birds of a feather flock together' suits them," said the organization.

The members of this space emphasized that the arrival of president Díaz-Canel in Mexico represents the unstoppable struggle of our peoples for the second and definitive independence, for the construction of the Patria Grande, of socialism.

He represents the defeat of apartheid, literacy with Yo sí Puedo program, the recovery of the sight of our elders with Operation Miracle; the solidarity and humanist work of the Henry Reeve Contingent of doctors, a president who represents the clamor of Doctors and not bombs, remarked the communiqué.