Through the diagnosis carried out jointly by the Mexican Armed Forces and the United States Northern Command, it is openly stated that the Mexican Army lacks “codified functions and responsibilities” to carry out group tasks.
Said report indicates that both Armies distrust each other, since they do not consider that the information they share is safe or correct. The Americans point out that professional training is urgent, in order to be able to standardize capacities.
This leaked information comes at a very complicated time, as the two countries continue to negotiate the T-MEC, an updated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), implemented in 1994 and which changed the economies of the three countries with the elimination of export tariffs.
But the consultations to reach a successful conclusion are still stuck and the same ambassador of the United States in Mexico, Ken Salazar, has already pointed out that “if they are not resolved -the controversies- at that level they would advance to a panel of experts”, which could delay everything the project, which has not been 100% completed for years.
For some economic experts, the United States is suspicious of the sweeping reforms that President López Obrador wants to implement before leaving his government. They would not be minimal changes, the government of Joe Biden seems surprised by the movements made by his counterpart on issues such as electricity, oil, the management of lithium and the strong intention of giving much more power to the Army.
AMLO has insisted on several occasions that he will defend the country’s sovereignty against our northern neighbor, that we are the most important trading partner. In the morning press conference last Tuesday, the Executive referred to article 89 of the Constitution, which “is the product of a long history of good relations, of attacks on our territory, of humiliations, of blood, of hammer, of the damage caused by war”.
This attitude, accompanied by an adverse international scenario with a global slowdown in the markets, widespread inflation, interest rates at unprecedented levels, a pandemic that refuses to end and a war between Russia and Ukraine, has effects on all the economies of the world. world, where Mexico and the United States simply do not reach an energy agreement, and make the negotiations more tense every day.
Given this situation, the resignation of Luz María de la Mora, who was precisely in charge of the T-MEC consultations on energy policy, is interesting. Now, without Tatiana Clouthier, and De la Mora, a moderate wing within the negotiations between countries is over, since it is well understood that the new economy secretary, Raquel Buenrostro, will seek to faithfully support the ideological current of López Obrador, although this could delay agreements or keep the bad mood of the United States and Canada at the government’s denial of the so-called 4T for taking a step back from the controversial reforms.
