U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken came under criticism from social media users on Friday after touting U.S. relations with Mexico while posing with a Mexican flag that was upside down.
Blinken posted a picture to Twitter of himself seated at a desk before he was to meet via video conference with Mexican counterpart Marcelo Ebrard. Behind him was a U.S. flag and the Mexican flag, albeit with the eagle’s head in the middle white panel of the Mexican flag facing downward.
A correspondent with Televisa, the largest Spanish-language media company in Latin America, mocked the post, writing in Spanish: ”with the Mexican flag upside down, the secretary of state begins his ‘virtual visit’ to the country.”
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