Georgina Saldierna
La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, December 9, 2024, p. 4
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) will promote a new cooperation agenda with Latin America that aims to reduce poverty, hunger, diseases, insecurity, global warming and everything that reduces the development potential of people. For the good of Latin America and the Caribbean, the poor first. This will be the guiding slogan
said the undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry for the region, Raquel Serur Smeke.
When presenting in the Senate the lines of action of the agency under his charge, he highlighted that in the neoliberal period the country’s rulers moved away from this area and in a clear parallel with what was happening in Mexico, the few initiatives with which associated south of the border, they focused on the free market, without ensuring that the economic impact permeated the most vulnerable sectors.
The result was a patent abandonment of social causes, solidarity and the integrative vocation that characterized Mexican foreign policy. Aware of this, the first government of the Fourth Transformation made the country resume its Latin American and Caribbean vocation. Today Mexico has the will and the capacity to deepen its relations with the states of the area, in order to jointly address common challenges and commit to regional integration.
The undersecretary committed to continuing to structurally address the phenomenon of human mobility. To do this, he explained that there is a model that puts people above control and containment measures.
In addition, cooperation will be intensified to address the root causes of migration, attack external factors that exacerbate it, expand avenues for labor mobility and pursue trafficking networks, he explained.
Raquel Serur pointed out that a proactive, responsible and strategic membership in regional organizations and mechanisms will be maintained, given the benefits of multilateralism. We will work to ensure that these forums act in accordance with their founding principles, and when necessary, we will propose reforms to correct course and avoid redundancy of agendas and functions
added the academic.
Before the senators of the Foreign Relations Commission, he maintained that a more integrated area is a stronger voice, which is why regional integration will be insisted upon and initiatives in strategic areas with a concrete impact on the people will be supported.
In the case of Ecuador, Mexico will continue the litigation before the International Court of Justice to request fair reparation for the damage and a public apology after the illegal and violent assault on the embassy in Quito at the hands of an irresponsible government
Serur highlighted.
