President Enrique Peña Nieto made it known that three persons of Mexican origin were among those killed during the attack perpetrated in Orlando, Florida, and one more was hurt but in stable condition.
While condemning the actions that led to 50 victims and a further 50 wounded, Peña Nieto stated that his government would give all the necessary support and assistance required to the family members of Mexican nationals, offering “all the help and help possible to the family members of the victims and those who were hurt,” through the local consulate.
Peña Nieto repeated his condemnation of “words that only divide, generate confrontation and provoke violence, such a this terrible tragedy in Orlando. From Mexico, our greatest solidarity with the American people.”
The president said that the attack “was an act charged with horror, terror and hate,” adding that this brought to light that words spreading hate and discrimination only fostered violence.
This tragedy was marked by a violence unleashed “perhaps, in its origin, by expressions of hate, or discrimination, of phobias towards other people, and that only accomplished violence, of which this is the tragic result, lamented and condemned by the whole world.”