In response to this, the national government implemented a policy of rapprochement with the White House to reach new agreements and avoid controversies. 'Who said it doesn't work? Just look at the numbers of trade growth between the countries and of employment. You just have to see the numbers,' retorted President Claudia Sheinbaum during the press conference she led this Thursday. Following the invasion of Venezuela, Trump turned some of his fire on Mexico by demanding greater security measures against organized crime and disparaging the trade agreement that unites the United States with Canada and Mexico by ensuring it is 'irrelevant'. Amid the bilateral tensions revived by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, regarding the present and future of the USMCA, Secretary of the Treasury, Marcelo Ebrard, defended the treaty, which he described as 'indispensable and strategic'. Among them, for example, that the dispute control system is strengthened to 'not have untimely circumstances that affect different industries', that there be reciprocity in the labor mechanism along with other areas and that the treaty be 'consolidated and strengthened because it has worked'. Sheinbaum announced that the electoral reform will be ready in February: 'It will strengthen democracy'. In this sense, Ebrard recounted that, despite the tensions, negotiations have advanced 'in each of the points that concern the parties'. 'The economy is doing well, we want to strengthen and increase investments,' he added. 'It is strategic and indispensable. The United States buys more from Mexico than China, Japan, and Germany together,' he added and considered that 'it is worth strengthening it'. According to him, the Mexican government seeks in the existing negotiation tables to reach some favorable agreements for the country. 'We are on the way,' he reported and anticipated that in June the renewal date of the treaty is scheduled, where it will seek to 'give clarity to each of the proposed points and see which ones are accepted'. You just have to see the numbers. In this context, this Thursday Ebrard announced a series of foreign investments that will arrive in the country in the coming months and reiterated that the administration led by Sheinbaum wants 'the treaty to be maintained'. 'Who said it doesn't work?' We have advanced well.
