Why not a specialized Unit for economic work in Mexico? --- On the contrary, Ambassador Rana, your ideas are very welcome. For the new leftist administration, the priorities are the reduction to the maximum of the bureaucratic apparatus, a new austerity policy and the redesign of foreign policy, so that diplomacy is focused on attracting investment to the country. For President López Obrador, ProMexico represented a squandering of public spending with specialists in promotion and foreign trade in around 60 offices that enjoyed salaries comparable to those of diplomats, when they could be trained to perform the same functions, so that a new specialized Unit would not be feasible. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has covered these spaces with young people who work for the General Directorate of Global Impulse who enjoy lower salaries while diplomats receive training, workshops and updates to do the work of ProMéxico from their respective embassies and consulates. The results of this initiative will be seen in the future.

Source author: Cecilia Treemonisha Barros Ruiz cbarros@sre.gob.mx