The president assured that “we will continue to be guided by the dollar. We are not going to experiment with other currencies.”
“You have to maintain relations with all governments, but for reasons of neighborhood, for what has been happening in recent times, that millions of Mexicans work in the US (25 million), for our economic and commercial integration, for geopolitical reasons , we have to maintain a good relationship with our neighbors,” the president said in the morning conference.
On August 24, it was announced that the incorporation of 6 countries : Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to the BRICS bloc, this from January 1 of next year.
The president assured that he seeks to strengthen North America economically and commercially and, in a second step, he is committed to the integration of the entire American continent, including the United States and Canada.
“If America is strengthened, if North America is consolidated as a strong economic-commercial region and does not lose competitiveness in relation to Asia, especially China, if balances are maintained” there will be peace in the world.
Finally, President López Obrador maintained that Mexico must maintain the commercial and economic relationship with the United States, as long as sovereignty is asserted.
“Economic and commercial integration, but always maintaining our country as a free and sovereign country. That they do not absorb us, that they do not turn us into a colony; that the governments of Mexico are not puppets of any foreign government ”, he pointed out.