Ángeles Cruz and Emir Olivares
La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, August 19, 2025, p. 4
The collaboration for the development between Mexico, Guatemala and Belize began from the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and remains in several issues, such as the extension of the interoceanic and Maya trains towards those countries, President Claudia Sheinbaum said, who reiterated her commitment to cooperation with the southern neighbors.
“What we can do, we are going to do it,” he said, and in the context of the Biocultural Corridor of the Great Mayan jungle, he stressed that the investment comes from programs such as sowing life for the care of forests in the three nations. Here, with well -being production, support for honey producers in Calakmul is provided and there are resources from the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas, he said.
Yesterday, the president referred in the National Palace to the meeting he held last Friday with her pair of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, and the Prime Minister of Belize, Juan Antonio Briceño, which in the past had not been possible, but now yes, and more for the coincidences in the policies of the governments, such as the decrease in poverty that has been achieved in Mexico and Belize.
Sheinbaum commented that he invited the prime minister to visit Mexico to advance in several pending issues, such as border security, economic development, environment and the train.
De Arévalo recalled that he does not have the majority in Congress and have sought to weaken it. Even so, he is doing very well in his country, he said.
For now it is not expected that the Guatemalan president will come to the country. However, there is collaboration in different matters, including security, especially from the incident in which Chiapas state police crossed the border with Guatemala.
The president recalled that her government apologized. “That should never be,” and now there is a high -level group, in order to combat crime on both sides of the borderline, with respect to sovereignty. The goal is for the border to be more safe, he said.
The high -level group gathered in Guatemala and in October will meet again in Mexico. The Federal Government participates in the Secretariats of Citizen Security and Protection and the Armed Forces.
