Juan Ramón de la Fuente, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), specifically asked consuls in the United States to deploy “with all their energy, the best possible consular diplomacy” to protect their fellow citizens.
When leading the 36th Meeting of Heads of Embassies and Consulates 2025 (REC) on Monday, January 6, the foreign minister also asked ambassadors and representatives of Mexico abroad to protect Mexican people, regardless of their immigration status.
“May this consular network be in the coming times a source of support, trust, and defense of our principles and the rights of our fellow citizens,” said the foreign minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, also in the context of Donald Trump’s upcoming entry into the US Presidency and the threat of mass deportation.
De la Fuente said that the SRE trusts in the Law as a tool to protect the compatriots who require it and to defend their rights with tools.
“These are times to deploy our best diplomacy,” said Juan Ramón de la Fuente, mentioning that Mexico expects professional, ethical, and effective diplomacy. He told them that Mexico trusts in their experience, commitment, dedication, and vocation of service.
“We want consulates with open doors, capable of listening, understanding, and attending to the points of view, needs, concerns, and desires of our countrymen,” added the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, reaffirming that Mexicans abroad “are not alone.”
“I invite them to work together, coordinated, with professionalism, with intelligence, with analysis, with a decision, with the care that the situations merit,” he indicated.
He stressed that the main message to the countrymen must be given in the facts: “They are not alone and our task and responsibility is to accompany them at all times.”
Doing so with a humanistic, active, and committed perspective, doing so where it is most needed, we must reflect in this Mexico in which we live, the human face of our foreign policy, he added, also calling for the vindication of decisions that were made in the past.
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