The Mexican president on Thursday rejected a request from Ukraine’s government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of Mexico’s next president in October. “We can’t do that,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters at a regular government press conference. “It’s not up to us.” Ukraine asked Mexico to arrest Putin if he attends the Oct. 1 swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum. The request, in a statement from Ukraine’s Mexican embassy dated Aug. 7, pointed to an arrest warrant issued by the U.N.'s International Criminal Court (ICC).

  • @OlinOfTheHillPeople
    10•1 month ago

    I don’t think anyone’s surprised. I do wonder though, if Putin has the guts to show up even with this assurance.

    • Buelldozer
      5•1 month ago

      …if Putin has the guts to show up even with this assurance.

      Not a chance. Someone(s) could easily make one, or all, of the Cartels an offer they couldn’t refuse to either make him disappear or make him disappear from Mexico and magically reappear at The Hague.

    • Lemminary
      2•1 month ago

      That’s what I thought! And yet there were surprises to be had in some other comments section arguing that because Mexico signed an extradition agreement, we’d be forced to follow through somehow.