There is interest in selling electricity to Guatemala, says Alicia Bárcena

Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena pointed out that in the context of the collaboration that exists in energy matters between Mexico and Guatemala, there is interest in selling electricity to said Central American country, as well as to Belize, and that will be one of the topics that will be discussed at the meeting. that will be held by the presidents, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of Mexico and Bernardo Arévalo of Guatemala on May 17 in Tapachula, Chiapas.

In a press conference offered during her participation in the Ministerial Meeting of the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) stated that “Mexico has the possibility and also the will to sell electricity to Guatemala, the same as to Belize. “We are all going through energy shortage problems due to the drought that we are facing throughout the world, the truth is, and in our countries it is no exception.”

Regarding the presidential summit of both leaders in Chiapas, he said that a “central” aspect will be “border security.”

In this sense, he explained that there will be a meeting between “the two security cabinets, there will be both ministries of Defense, of the Navy – on our side -, of Citizen Security (…), of course, of the Government on both sides and of development , our Mexican Cooperation Agency, because what interests us is precisely to see how we protect our border from, precisely, traffickers, for example, or people, or drugs.”

He noted that the governments of both countries have been defining “what are the critical points that we must act simultaneously and binationally” in this area.

In relation to this, another topic that will be analyzed is the “infrastructure” in that area. “We are very interested in promoting some border crossings in terms of infrastructure,” he cited as an example that in the case of El Ceibo, Mexico does have this, but “the infrastructure is missing on the Guatemalan side.” We will seek to solve this lack.

He elaborated that the reinforcement of border crossings will also include “Suchiate II, which is where most of the trade between Mexico and Guatemala passes through,” and it will be analyzed which other one requires the same treatment.

“Possibly Suchiate I, we are in it, analyzing, precisely, which is the best place, because there are several, right? There is Ingenieros, there is La Mesilla… so, the third is the one that has yet to be defined, but it is surely Suchiate II and El Ceibo, the two places that we are going to strengthen.”

Likewise, he announced that the delegations will address the issue of the operation of the Sembrando Vida program in Guatemala and recalled that as part of this collaboration the Mexican federal government “is, to a certain extent, supporting 14 thousand beneficiaries in areas, precisely, in the areas poorest in Guatemala.”