• Diplomacy Morocco denounces the "instrumentalization" of the European Parliament in the crisis of minors in Ceuta

  • Politics The European Parliament condemns Morocco's actions for using migration as a political weapon

The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, today called the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Arancha González Laya, to express the support of the United States "for migration through the usual, orderly, safe and humane channels," in which is an implicit support for the Spanish position in the recent crisis in Ceuta.

It is the second time that Blinken and González Laya have talked on the phone. On the first occasion, on February 16, the head of US diplomacy thanked the Spanish Government for "its reception of US military forces," mainly at the Rota and Morón bases, which are the main reason for Washington's interest in Spain. . On this occasion, Blinken has reminded Spain of "the commitment to spend more on common defense" within NATO, an old demand of the United States from the time of the Ronald Reagan presidency that reached a particularly serious tone with Donald Trump in the White House.

If you compare the topics covered in each of the conversations, you can see the change in the international agenda in recent months. In February, the fight against Covid-19 was one of the issues mentioned in the statement from the State Department; on this occasion, it is not even named. Instead, the migration crisis, in which the US stood by as it faces two of its main allies in one area, the Mediterranean and Gibraltar, which it considers critical to its geostrategic interests, played a central role.

One of the common points of both conversations was Venezuela.

Although there are differences there too.

The February statement from the State Department only mentions that country.

Now, however, he speaks of the "challenges," and includes another Latin American nation, Nicaragua, on which the Biden government has imposed sanctions this week for the arrest of practically all of the leaders of the opposition to the president, the leftist Daniel Ortega.

Russia and China, which were discussed in the first conversation, are now not cited, although the Middle East does appear for the first time, an ambiguous term in the US, which sometimes includes from Morocco to Afghanistan.

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