“With our heads held high, we will never subordinate ourselves to the United States”

Néstor Jiménez and Emir Olivares

La Jornada Newspaper
Monday, January 13, 2025, p. 3

One week before the start of Donald Trump’s new period in the United States government, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo stressed that in the relationship with the neighboring country We coordinate, we collaborate, but we never subordinate ourselveswhile emphasizing: We will always have our heads held high. Mexico is a free, independent and sovereign country.

And remembering that between the governments of Trump and Andrés Manuel López Obrador there was collaboration and respect, he trusted that in the new administration of the Republican there will also be a good relationship, in which dialogue will prevail.

The president’s words unleashed the cry of Mexico, Mexico, Mexico among the thousands of attendees who overflowed the capital’s Zócalo yesterday during the report he offered on the occasion of his first 100 days in office. The Chief Executive also joined the chorus for a moment.

Sheinbaum Pardo closed the event with a message to the Mexican migrants living in United States territory, whom, after clearly defining heroes and heroinessaid that he does not forget them, but that We recognize them and defend them. She was immediately forced to pause briefly before the chorus of President, President.

After presenting the achievements of the first months of the six-year term, he maintained that Mexicans are an honest, hard-working and brave people, who have always known how to get ahead.

We resist, but we never give upindicated the head of the federal Executive when citing, for example, the sisters and brothers in the United Stateswho last year sent resources to their relatives for nearly 65 billion dollars.

Highlighting that they not only boost Mexico’s economy, he added: that it is heard well and that it is heard loudly, they contribute more to the United States economy, since what they send to Mexico is only 20 percent of what they leave there in consumption, savings and taxes. Mexican workers work like no one else in the United States.

He considered his compatriots extraordinary workers in the fields, construction and services, as well as great scientists in universities. They are heroes and heroines of the countryhe insisted.

In addition, he referred to the relationship between Mexico and the United States, leading up to Trump’s inauguration on January 20.

As we know, we have had painful moments in our history, but I highlight the good moments, the good examples of respect for our sovereignties and of collaboration and supporthe explained when referring, for example, to the help that Abraham Lincoln offered to Benito Juárez in his fight against the French invaders, or the respect of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lázaro Cárdenas.

I also highlight the good relationship of respect and collaboration of Donald Trump’s first term with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador; in particular, the signing of the Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada, which has benefited our people so much, all three of them; in particular, for import substitution and job creation in the three nationshe pointed out, pointing out that, from the signing of the T-MEC, “it was conceived that this was the only option to successfully face the competition that means the economic and commercial advance of Asian countries.

Mexico’s proposal, he explained, has been the inclusion not only of the economic and commercial integration not only of North America, but of the entire continent. That is why I am convinced that the relationship between Mexico and the United States will be good and respectful, and that dialogue will prevail. Our vision is Mexican humanism, brotherhood between people and nationshe added, reiterating that collaboration is not subordination.

Long live our migrant brothers in the United States! Long live the Fourth Transformation, long live the people of Mexico, long live Mexico!the president launched at the conclusion of her message.

Moments before, he expressed solidarity with the population of Los Angeles, California, in the face of the fires that have been recorded in that region, and thanked the courage and generosity to the Mexican forest fire fighters participating in the DN-III-E Plan and who came to assist the Californian population.