Mexico (AP) – The leaders of Mexico and Brazil said on Wednesday that they would endeavor to strengthen trade between their nations – the two largest economies in Latin America – as a counterweight for us The changing positions of President Donald Trump on world prices Who threw markets into chaos.
Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva met on the sidelines of a regional summit in Honduras, where the leaders developed how to respond to Trump’s prices and climb the deportations, among other questions.
“We have decided to further strengthen relations between our two countries by promoting regular meetings between our governments and the trade sectors of Brazil and Mexico,” said Lula on X.
The meeting of 11 heads of state and 20 representatives of Latin America and the Caribbean, a block known as the community of the Latin American and Caribbean states, was marked by a call to put aside the differences in the face of global tensions.
“Today, more than ever is a good time to recognize that Latin America and the Caribbean need unity and solidarity,” said Sheinbaum at the summit.
Trump Wednesday suspended its global prices for 90 days On most countries other than China, which was affected by an increase in prices of 125%, another climbing of the trade war between the two countries.
Even with the prices break, resentment still simmer among many trade partners and the American allies, who have started looking for other reliable trade alternatives in the face of uncertainty under the Trump administration.
Adding to economic disorders is also greater frustrations concerning Trump’s expulsion tactics, more and more the subject of legal examination and criticism of human rights, and evolves by its administration which, according to some, focus on the sovereignty of foreign nations.
Which extended to the American Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth saying that the Chinese presence in the Panama Canal represents a security threat to recent reports that the Trump administration is studying the possibility of Drone strikes against Mexican cartelsthat Sheinbaum suddenly rejected.
“We do not agree with any kind of intervention or interference,” she told journalists on Tuesday during her morning press conference.
