In the Latin American geopolitical score, Mexico and Brazil have frequently traveled by parallel paths, each with their own cadence and inheritance. Despite being the two largest economies in the region, they have rarely touched the same compass. Mariachi and Samba intended to sound in different spaces. Now, another modulation begins to listen.
The visit to Mexico City of the Vice President of Brazil, Geraldo Alckmin, accompanied by a high -level delegation, marks a unique moment. His meeting with Juan Ramón de la Fuente and Marcelo Ebrard, Secretaries of Foreign and Economy Relations, and the signing of strategic documents to expand cooperation in key sectors such as trade, agriculture and science, marks the beginning of a major agenda.
Last year, the commercial exchange between the two countries reached 14 billion dollars; Brazil’s aspiration is to increase it significantly. The two Latin American giants understand that their regional and global future depends largely on how they relate to each other.
This approach does not arise in a vacuum. Just in June, President Claudia Sheinbaum held an encounter with her Brazilian couple Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva during the G-7 summit in Canada. That political dialogue opened the door to the concretion of recent agreements. Mexico and Brazil are willing to move from rhetorical coincidences to palpable projects.
The importance of this understanding is not reduced to trade. Both countries have undertaken parallel strategies for social fabric reconstruction. Brazil has launched the Viva Periphery program, with investments aimed at urbanizing 49 favelas in 12 states. Pavement, drainage, public lighting and housing improvement represent an attempt to dignify territories of violence.
In Mexico, the national capital reflects this same logic of integral intervention. The head of government, Clara Brugada, has promoted social proximity programs, strengthening of police quadrants and a strengthening of the C5 video surveillance ecosystem. This model, based on the combination of technology and social prevention, has contributed to a 61 percent reduction in high -impact crimes between 2019 and 2025.
The commitment, as in Brazil, is not only to monitor, but to accompany communities, attend vulnerabilities and create an urban environment where security is also sustained in citizen trust.
In both cases a pattern is noticed: security ceases to be understood only as the deployment of force and begins to be conceived as an urban dignification project. Both Lula and Sheinbaum, both with political origins linked to the left, agree to place social justice as a pillar of security.
The Mariachi puts himself at the rhythm of Samba and the batucada touches with another they are.
About the author:
Salvador Guerrero Chiprés is general coordinator of the Command, Control, Computing, Communications and Citizen Contact Center (C5) of Mexico City.
www.c5.cdmx.gob.mx
Twitter: @C5_CDMX
The opinions expressed are only the responsibility of their authors and are completely independent of the position and the editorial line of Forbes Mexico.
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