The president of Brazil highlighted how important the United States is for Mexico on trade issues. But that does not prevent Mexican businessmen from looking to the South.
“They will find many possibilities in Brazil, a country with 220 million inhabitants, a relatively large GDP and a fairly reasonable participation in the economy,” said the Brazilian president.
He added that the time has come for both Brazil and Mexico to become highly developed economies, since they have an intellectual base in their universities. “We have science and technology. What we need is to believe in ourselves and define the size we want to be.”
He spoke about the dependence on the United States and China and how to generate greater brotherhood between Mexico and Brazil.
“We have to sit down and discuss what is good for Mexico and what is good for Brazil, what can contribute to the growth of the economies. What can I buy and sell, and do it in the most open way possible so that we can become not only a economy of 4 trillion dollars, but in an economy of five or 6, and not only accompanying the growth of China and the United States or waiting for there to be a new Cold War.
I don’t want to fight with the United States, nor with China or India. I don’t want to fight with anyone. What I want is to do business, grow economically, for our industries and agriculture to grow and for Brazil and Mexico to invest in the construction of artificial intelligence that results in commercial benefits for us, our women, our children, our future. “That’s in our hands.”
In that sense, he acknowledged President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, as he allowed the entire commercial part to be worked easily and called on Claudia Sheinbaum to improve.
“I am already very pleased with the behavior of Comrade López Obrador and the ease with which he has worked here with the export policy with respect to Brazil. And I think that Claudia must not only have learned from this productive practice, but also knows that he has to work harder and better. That is the future of his successors.
The agreements that Brazil has with Mexico date back 20 years, but the two countries have changed, so a meeting will be sought with the next government to talk about a new one, not exactly free trade, but one that can address the interests of the two countries.
Regarding the good relationship that Mexico maintains with the United States and Brazil with China, Marcelo Ebrard, who will be the Secretary of Economy with Sheinbaum, said that there is “a very wide avenue” to travel together with Brazil, which has to do with the aeronautical industry. and aerospace, automotive industry, medical and pharmaceutical equipment, electronics and artificial intelligence, renewables and the food industry and infrastructure.
“Mexico has signed an economic complementarity agreement with Brazil since 2003, so the growth of our relationship exceeds that agreement, so we have to update it, that is in the commercial and economic sphere. I must say that there is also an intangible, which is the that has a similar or shared vision with the government of Brazil, because as Lula said, its main exports are to China and we are to the United States, but there is an interest in increasing our relationship, because we can achieve it when there is political will,” he said. Ebrard.
