Roberto Velasco Álvarez

"From a position of respect to U.S. domestic issues, Mexico certainly welcomes this decision to reinforce and expand DACA, to end the construction of the border wall — which became obviously an unfriendly symbol that has been building up over the past decades between our two countries.”

"We see with a lot of optimism […] of the decisions that President Biden is making, for example rejoining the WHO, and finally joining COVAX.”

"Mexico has been talking for a while about what are the priorities for us […] We’ve been talking about gun trafficking which is a major problem in Mexico, mainly because of assault and automatic weapons […] You actually need some changes in regulation in the U.S. that we understand are extremely partisan and are difficult to process, but they are important nonetheless because the impact of these guns in Mexico is extremely gruesome.”

“I think this is sort of the Mexican perspective — to actually attack the business model of organized crime between the two countries and not just focus on particular strategies we’ve seen fail in the past, this is the kingpin strategy, and many other things that we’ve seen have not worked.”