The United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said Monday that he hopes to go “very soon” to Mexico to have contacts and treat the changes that Donald Trump demands his American neighbor to prevent the tariffs from entering the tariffs in force 25 %.
Rubio indicated from El Salvador that he is not planning to modify his Central American tour that began this weekend to make a scale in Mexico, but indicated that he has been in contact with the Mexican Foreign Secretary, Juan Ramón de la Fuente. “We have started having a good relationship and I’m sure I will talk and see it very soon,” he told the press.
“We want to have a good association with Mexico and it will always be our neighbor (…) but we have legitimate concerns about the existence and growth of these dangerous posters, which in some cases operate as governments in parts of Mexico and that are a very big challenge for the Sovereignty of the Mexican State, ”said Rubio.
“We seek to be good partners in this regard,” said the head of American diplomacy, who acknowledged that the announcement of the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to deploy 10,000 military on the Mexican side of the border with the US good signal. “
“I am not sure that it solves all the problems we have raised,” said Rubio, who will be Trump’s manager to negotiate with Mexico.
In a call this morning between Trump and Sheinbaum, the US president agreed to pause the 25 % tariffs on Mexican imports that had to enter the next morning for a month.
During that period, Trump ordered Rubio to head some negotiations with Mexico, together with Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, and the secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick.
With Reuters information.
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