New challenge and capabilities of Mexican economic diplomacy --- I appreciate your comments and actually these are concerns that I also share. That is why I ended the section about Mexico referring to the need of increasing the internal capacities of the Ministry to develop properly economic diplomacy activities. Currently, we are at the beginning of a new stage with tasks and responsibilities that we did not have before as a ministry, so it is still too early to know if this important modification really has gains or there will be losses that eventually affect the foreign policy. Regarding the staff with a certain hierarchical level, there are two broad categories, members of the Foreign Service and incorporated personnel. The first category is about people who enter the Mexican Foreign Service through exams and are in constant professionalization, while the second category, in theory, is about people who have special technical abilities and who are invited to join the ministry. At the moment, the training is not that extensive. In fact, in addition to this economic diplomacy course from the Diplo Foundation, I ignore if there are other seminars that are offered to us on this subject.

Source author: Ricardo Daniel Delgado Muñoz rdelgado@sre.gob.mx