Without detailing further details of the plan, the president of Mexico assured that “this will mean investment and many jobs”

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will present an import substitution plan for North America at his meeting next January with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“The meeting with President Biden is going to be very important for this reason, because we are going to propose a plan to substitute imports and produce in America, first in North America, but in the medium term throughout America, what we consume,” he reported. this Tuesday during the morning conference at the National Palace.

Without detailing the plan, he argued that “this will mean investment and many jobs.”

“The economic situation of the country is very optimistic, that is, there is a lot of optimism, many companies that were in Asia are already setting up, they are moving to Mexico, and this is quite favorable,” said the man from Tabasco.

López Obrador referred to the North American Leaders Summit to be held in Mexico in January, with the confirmed attendance of President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who he had already asked for greater economic integration in the trilateral meeting of November 2021 in Washington.

The Mexican Executive also announced “two also important plans” for his meeting with his US counterpart, “one that has to do with an alliance for the well-being of all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.”

“And another one, another alliance to see ourselves in Latin America, in the Caribbean and throughout the continent, as allies, and that the sovereignty of the peoples be respected, the self-determination of the peoples. It is a general approach for this visit by the president of Biden”, said López Obrador.

Retake the North American Summit

The last Summit of North American Leaders took place in November 2021 in Washington, where the three North American leaders addressed the covid-19 pandemic, migration, and the Treaty between Mexico, the United States, and Canada (T-MEC).

The trilateral summit, popularly known as the “three friends” and which was normally organized annually, was held last year for the first time since 2016, after being paralyzed for four years during the term of Donald Trump.

The next meeting is significant because Mexico and the United States celebrated 200 years of bilateral relations on December 12, for which López Obrador received a special commission from Washington and exchanged letters with Biden.

Both countries exchanged a record of more than 661,000 million dollars in trade in 2021.

“We are more friends than before and our economic and commercial relations are of the first order, we are the main commercial partners in the world, Mexico and the United States, so we are doing well,” said the Mexican president on Tuesday.

AMLO and the situation in Peru

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) denied that he is practicing acts of interference in the face of the political crisis that Peru is going through after the attempted self-coup by former president Pedro Castillo.

This was clarified in his conference on December 13 due to the letter that Mexican diplomats, Argentina, Bolivia and Colombia signed in concern for the alleged “undemocratic harassment” of which Castillo Terrones would have been a victim prior to the dismissal and detention of the.

“It has a problem, a flaw, undemocratic in origin. It is a story of political instability that they are making the laws in a way to favor a minority, ”he declared.

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