Economic strength highlighted | The Century of Torreón

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador highlighted the importance of continuing to strengthen economic integration with the United States and subsequently do so throughout the continent.

He called for a pact of clear rules that guarantee mutual respect for sovereignties. By leading the ceremony of the 110th anniversary of the Defense of the Port of Veracruz against the invasion of the United States and the Flag Oath ceremony of the cadets of the Heroic Naval Academy Military, the Head of the federal Executive trusted that, in the midst of electoral processes in both neighboring countries and just over five months after he leaves office, the good neighbor policy will be maintained. “The important thing here is how to strengthen this economic integration that suits both nations, that suits the United States and that suits Mexico.

Strengthen North America and subsequently strengthen the entire American continent. Just as the European Community was initially created, which later became the European Union, so we must integrate into America. That is what is best for the new generations,” said the President. “But a pact is needed, an agreement of mutual respect for our sovereignty, clear rules, because Mexico does not want to be a protectorate or a colony of any foreign country. Mexico wants to remain a free, independent, sovereign country. That is what we have to achieve, until now there has been a lot of respect from the United States governments and I hope that this good neighbor policy is maintained,” López Obrador added.

“I have told the president [Joe] Biden instead of the phrase attributed to Porfirio Díaz [‘Pobre México, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de Estados Unidos’] We can put into practice another, according to which “Blessed Mexico, so close to God and not so far from the United States!”

Accompanied by members of his cabinet and by Governor Cuitláhuac García Jiménez, the federal President assured that there is increasing integration with the American Union, a country of which Mexico is already the main trading partner, after displacing China and Canada. “This integration is convenient for us, there is no doubt about it, because that foreign investment and that public investment is what reactivates our economy and creates jobs, like now that Mexico is one of the countries with the least unemployment and it has to do with the arrival of that foreign investment and with public investment. And if there is growth, there are jobs; and if there are jobs, there is well-being; and if there is well-being, there is peace and there is tranquility,” he said.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked Admiral Rafael Ojeda Durán, head of the Secretary of the Navy (Semar), for the support, “because he has acted with great loyalty to the institutions.”