“Hector Vasconcelos, our ambassador (to the United Nations), will participate. I was speaking with Roberto Velasco, who is now in charge of Foreign Affairs, and he will present a very firm statement of what Mexico always thinks,” the president affirmed.

In a context marked by Washington’s military threats against Caracas, the head of the Executive Branch insisted on her nation’s foreign policy, governed by principles such as non-intervention in states, non-interference, and the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

“That will always be our position. We have stated it very forcefully and we will always defend it,” she emphasized. When asked about the announcements made yesterday by US President Donald Trump regarding the construction of a battery of battleships, Sheinbaum recalled the proposal she made in November 2024 at the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Brazil.

“We made a proposal that we always defend: if one percent of what is spent on armaments worldwide were dedicated to a program like Sembrando Vida (Sowing Life), we would have more than six million participants in the program. We will always defend peace,” she said.

Venezuelan President Nicolámas Maduro urged his counterparts from Latin American and Caribbean nations, as well as from the 194 UN member states, to join forces to contain the US military and piracy threat.

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