Despite a good relationship, the US can go to the T-MEC: Salazar

Angelica Enciso L.

Newspaper La Jornada
Monday February 20, 2023, p. 7

Given the divergences between Mexico and the United States on the issues of yellow corn and the electricity sector, there is the T-MEC, although there is a very good and strong dialogue with the Mexican government agenciesbut if the solution to the differences cannot be found, it has to go to the legal framework, said the US ambassador Ken Salazar.

The business relationship I see it every day, there is a modern and secure border between the two countries, never in the history of Mexico and the United States was there that kind of dialoguehe asserted after placing a wreath in honor of Abraham Lincoln in a park located in Polanco, on Presidents’ Day.

Regarding the celebration of the Day of the Mexican Army, he indicated that there is a lot of confidence in the military corps and they work closely with the secretariats of National Defense and the Navy, we are doing well in the relationship, it is important.

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In a brief interview, he maintained that in the January meeting between the presidents of the United States, Joe Biden, and Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on the security issue, the issue of fentanyl was discussed a lot, we have stocks and there will be more in the coming days and months.

He recalled that a US president had not come to the country in nine years, and that since it was important to the Mexican president, Biden arrived at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport. In other countries, only the president leaves (in his vehicle) and here he invited López Obrador to go with him in the car.

They talked for more than an hour on the way to the hotel and he didn’t come for a few hours, but stayed all of Monday and almost all of Tuesday, because this relationship is very important. He added that, from his point of view, is the one that has the most consequence in the world for the United States.

Previously, in a message, Salazar referred to the fact that the relationship is inseparable by geography, it will never changebut the countries are more united and inseparable by the peoples, and he recalled that his ancestors from about 400 years ago are in New Mexico and Colorado.

He pointed out that President Lincoln is the one who has left the most consequences for his country and the world, and mentioned that in the house of the United States ambassador in Mexico there are two bedrooms, one is where a high-level member of his government stays. country and I have called it Abraham Lincoln; I have named the other bedroom the Benito Juárez room. I have done it because the relationship between President Lincoln and Juárez was close, if they had not had communication and understanding there would not be the Mexico of today, nor the United States of today..