The United States government revoked the visa of Andrés Manuel López Beltrán, age 40, son of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador and former Secretary of Organization of Morena. The move became known on August 13, when López Beltrán published an open letter to President Donald Trump from Teapa, Tabasco.
In the letter, López Beltrán attributed the decision to political motives and named Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Deputy Secretary Christopher Landau as responsible for ordering the cancellation, with the aim of intimidating him and Morena, according to El Universal. He maintained that there is no evidence to justify the measure and described it as a decision of a political and propagandistic nature. Morena's National Executive Committee, in a statement dated August 14, invoked the defense of national sovereignty and spoke of the use of immigration instruments as a mechanism of political interference, Aristegui Noticias reports. President Claudia Sheinbaum characterized the visa revocation as a matter with a political dimension and as interference in Mexican politics, according to El País. The case illustrates the weight that United States consular policy carries over Mexican public figures, well beyond the official diplomatic channel.
The cancellation falls within a broad consular policy: the State Department has reported more than 175,000 visa revocations under the current administration, according to El País. The United States Embassy in Mexico has not detailed the reason for this particular case, citing the confidentiality of the files. In response, governors aligned with the Fourth Transformation published a statement rejecting foreign interference in Mexico's internal affairs, Expansión Política reports. PAN's national leader Jorge Romero demanded that authorities clarify the reason for the cancellation.
López Beltrán left the Secretariat of Organization of Morena to pursue a candidacy as a federal deputy for Tabasco ahead of the 2027 elections. The case stands as another chapter in the consular exchange between Mexico and the United States, with attention now fixed on that electoral process.
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