Néstor Jiménez and Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada Newspaper
Thursday, January 22, 2026, p. 4
Mexico’s greatest defense is its people, as well as a government that “is attentive to what is happening and has different alternatives,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo yesterday when asked about the tensions between Europe and the United States, after President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annex Greenland to her country.
After the statements that emerged on the subject at the World Economic Forum in Davos, in Switzerland, and given the response that the European Union anticipated in this case, the head of the federal Executive was asked what Mexico’s strengths would be in that scenario.
In this regard, he explained: “First, the government is always informing people about any circumstance. And the greatest defense we have is our people and, obviously, a government that is attentive to what is happening and that has different alternatives, in addition to informing in case we see – if we consider it that way – a condition of vulnerability or difficulty.”
After indicating that the Mexican people “have experienced many calamities,” from which they have always overcome, he expressed: “the best defense that Mexico has is its people, and let them know that we are working on it.”
He then added that “we are neither minimizing nor exaggerating, but simply working on it,” emphasizing his confidence that trade integration with the United States will prevail and, at the same time, ties with other markets will be strengthened.
“At the table or on the menu”
Finally, in reference to the messages issued at the Davos Forum, the intervention of the Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, stood out. “Very good speech, I don’t know if you heard it; very in tune with the current moments,” the president stressed.
On Tuesday, the Canadian spoke out, among other issues, about the “breakdown” of the rules-based international order and expressed his support for Greenland.
He urged unity, because “the middle powers must act together because, if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.”
