Alma E. Muñoz and Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, p. 3
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo ratified her support for the candidacy of former Chilean president Michelle Bachelet for the general secretary of the United Nations, whose election will be this year.
He reported that he asked Alicia Bárcena, whom “we once thought we could propose” to the position, in addition to remaining as Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, to help in the investment planning process.
“Alicia is extraordinary, very good, and she is going to help us. She was executive director of the Economic Commission for the Development of Latin America. She is an expert in reducing inequality and has many international contacts,” he said in the morning of the town.
The President specified that she decided to support Bachelet because “she is already a woman and she was twice president of Chile. She is a recognized woman, knows the United Nations and has a pacifist vision of the world and care for the poor.”
After Alfonso Suárez del Real, political advisor of the Social Communication Coordination of the Presidency, explained that on February 14 the 69th anniversary of the Treaty of Tlatelolco will be celebrated, the president explained the importance of Mexican foreign policy in the Missile Crisis in 1962.
He added that “Mexico will always continue to play the role of builder of peace in the world, of defense of the sovereignty of the people, and of non-intervention, always. This is what we do by conviction and by the Constitution.”
