He says President López Obrador that the best policy The exterior is the interior and it is a half-truth. Every country, especially a middle power like Mexicomember of the OECD, partner commercial of USA (of which it is the main exporter and with which it shares a border of three thousand kilometers) and CanadaYou can’t afford to ignore your foreign policy. And in that sense, beyond the work that Marcelo Ebrard and now Alicia Bárcenas carried out before, we are leaving a regrettable image. We have lost weight, influence and prestige.
The violence and the unsafetywhich according to the National Palace does not exist, has us on the front pages of the world press almost daily and is a cause of deep concern for our main trading partners. He murder of the Australian and American surfers in Cove It has been global news. He Australian government has asked his compatriots do not travel to Mexico due to violencethe murders and violations. The location of the three men was carried out due to the demands and intervention of fbi agents on the research.
American concern is growing because that area of the national territory, the Tijuana-Ensenada corridornot only has enormous mobility on both sides of the border, and many Americans reside there, but because it has become one of the main entry points for fentanyl to the American Union, a drug that continues to cause some one hundred thousand deaths from overdose per year in that country.
From Tijuana, fentanyl enters San Diego and from there it is distributed to the rest of California and the center of the country. Tijuana is a focus of very high violence, one of the most dangerous cities, with cross accusations, within Morena itself, of relations with some of the criminal groups that operate there. It is not a minor fact at the point of greatest exchange of goods and people with the United States.
Here he was disqualified in the National Palace, but the State Department’s report on the human rights situation is terribly critical of Mexico, including not only the violence, murders and disappearances but also the attack by the federal executive against the autonomy of the judiciary. a strategy of weakening that persists and will increase as the last weeks of the six-year term approach.
Migration and violence are topics very present on the agenda of the United States and other countries, and of course in their media. The recent presentation of the Pulitzer Prizes, the most prestigious recognitions of the American and probably world press, was another demonstration of this: two of the main awards were for photographs and reports on migration at the border. The award in biography went to Cristina Rivera Garza’s extraordinary book, Liliana’s Invincible Summer, a report, a story created around the femicide of her younger sister, Liliana. The book is extraordinary, but beyond that, the topic has international impact: we have the worst rates of femicides globally and the highly deserved award for Rivera Garza is related to that reality. Not only is a book celebrated, but violence against women in our country is also brought back into the spotlight.
The diplomatic positions that Mexico has adopted do not help either. It is terrible that we have not condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and that we continue flirting with the Putin regime, making agreements, establishing exchanges with a government condemned by all the democracies of the world. We demand to the point of ridicule the release of Julian Assange but the Mexican government has not said a word about the death (probable murder) of Alexsei Navalny. The relationship with Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua continues to be privileged. We support them in every possible way and we even put the blockade on Cuba and sanctions on Venezuela in the framework of negotiations on the immigration issue with the US, while we finance development projects in Nicaragua, we give oil to Cuba and Venezuela pays migrants who wish to return to that country. In none of these cases have we, as a government, expressed any criticism, on the contrary, for the constant violation of human rights and individual freedoms.
The relationship with the Catholic Church is bad. What happened with Bishop Salvador Rangel does not exactly help to improve it. Time and time again, criticism of the government, its security strategy and the violence suffered by society arise in almost all levels of the Church. In the Vatican, Pope Francis is very attentive to this situation, particularly since the death of the Jesuit priests in the Tarahumara mountains and receives weekly reports from Mexico about it. What happened with Rangel, if it is confirmed that the state government manipulated the information, could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
The international perception of Mexico is not good and increasingly, as The Economist’s panel of experts says, they perceive us as a mixed regime, between democratic and deeply authoritarian. It’s not good news.
Politics and crime
The substitute candidate for deputy for the PAN, Tania Trejo, was arrested in Puebla. She was arrested along with six men in possession of long weapons and drugs and are accused of drug trafficking and acts of violence committed in that entity. Her brother had been arrested months ago. The question is obvious: do the parties, in this case the Puebla PAN, not check the basic background of those who are proposed as candidates?
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