Claudia Sheinbaum assures that Mexico will seek agreements with the US despite threats from Trump

In a meeting with those responsible for the embassies and consulates, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, expressed this Wednesday to Mexican diplomats that, despite threats of mass deportations of migrants by the president-elect of the United States, Donald Trump, His government will seek to reach agreements and understandings.

Sheinbaum held a private meeting at the National Palace with representatives of Mexico abroad, within the framework of the Meeting of Ambassadors and Consuls 2025.

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“(The president) has the idea that there will be an understanding (with Donald Trump’s government) and an agreement will be reached on an equal footing, defending the dignity and sovereignty (of Mexico),” the ambassador told the media. from Mexico in Norway, Omar Fayad, leaving the meeting

Meanwhile, Sheinbaum reported the meeting in a message on social networks.

“We led the meeting of heads of Embassies and Consulates 2025 in the National Palace, in the company of Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente; our migrant brothers and sisters have full support. We talk about the moral authority that Mexico has today before the world,” he noted. .

The Mexican president had announced in her daily conference that she would speak with Mexican diplomats “about the historic moment that Mexico is experiencing.” (…) of the moral authority that Mexico has today and what we represent for our country and for the entire world.”

He noted that, particularly for the consuls, “the entire strategy (of the Mexican Government is) to support our migrant brothers and sisters and that, what we ask for most, which is the essence of our project, is humanism.”

In his daily conference, Sheinbaum also responded to Trump about his proposal that the name of the Gulf of Mexicorecognized since 1607, be renamed ‘Gulf of America’ for its criticism of the Mexican Government for migration, trade and drug trafficking.

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“Obviously, the name Gulf of Mexico is recognized by the United Nations, but why don’t we call it Mexican America? It sounds nice, doesn’t it? Since 1607. The Constitution of Apatzingán (of 1814) was from Mexican America, then we are going to call it Mexican America,” said the president.

The statements of Trumpwho takes power on January 20, came within their warnings of imposing 25% tariffs if the Mexican Government does not stop the “invasion” of migrants and drugs to the United States, particularly fentanyl.

Despite this, the Mexican president insisted that “there will be a good relationship” with the United States because she does not see “why there could be a bad relationship,” in addition to believing “that President Trump has his way of communicating.”

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