Overview

• Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente said criminalizing migration is “sencillamente inadmisible” and urged democracies, diplomacy and multilateral institutions to defend migrants’ rights.
• He delivered the message at the event En defensa de la democracia, luchando contra extremismos during the 80th UN General Assembly in New York, convened by the leaders of Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Spain and Uruguay.
• De la Fuente reiterated Mexico’s longstanding opposition to the UN Security Council veto and called for a more robust multilateral system to strengthen a more democratic international order.
• Coverage situated the stance against President Donald Trump’s UN speech a day earlier that condemned open-border policies and portrayed irregular migration as linked to crime.
• He framed Mexico’s position under President Claudia Sheinbaum’s humanismo mexicano, emphasizing dignity, equality and social justice along with the protection of civic spaces and a broad set of rights.