Alonso Urrutia and Alma Muñoz
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, October 12, 2024, p. 6
After the pause
decreed at the end of the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the relationship with the United States embassy due to interference in internal affairs, the new government established guidelines that will govern the links of that diplomatic representation with federal agencies, reported President Claudia Sheinbaum . Any meeting or issue that Ambassador Ken Salazar seeks to discuss must be done through the Foreign Ministry.
The president reported that the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE), Juan Ramón de la Fuente, met with Salazar, and commented that Sometimes the ambassador calls a secretary, another secretary. So, now we told him: well, if you want to touch on any topic related to the Ministry of Energy, because there are American businessmen interested in investing and they want to know the availability, it will be through the Foreign Ministry.
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When asked specifically about the threats of the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, to impose modifications to the T-MEC, Sheinbaum pointed out that he actually referred to some aspects associated with the irregular entry of Chinese products. However, he anticipated that regardless of who wins the elections, we are going to agree
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He maintained that the commercial integration of Mexico, the United States and Canada is broad, and the US economy It already depends a lot on Mexico
so agreements will have to be reached to consolidate economic ties. We do not compete, we complement each other, and that is established in the treaty. It recently emerged that we are at the historical maximum of exports to the United States
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In his conference, Sheinbau stated that Mexico’s purpose is to expand commercial integration in the area to incorporate Central and South America, which would allow the continent to be consolidated as a solid economy in the global context, although this would not imply closing us to other markets.
