President Enrique Peña Nieto will travel to San José, Costa Rica to attend the 16th Summit of the Tuxtla Mechanism for Dialogue and Cooperation on Wednesday, March 29.
President Peña Nieto will speak with the Mesoamerican presidents about the progress that has been made in the nine strategic sectors of the Mesoamerica integration and development project: transportation, energy, telecommunications, trade and competitiveness, risk management, health, the environment and food security.
The 16th Summit is being held in response to the members’ interest in strengthening the Tuxtla Mechanism in order to make it the focal point of their integration and development cooperation in the Mesoamerican region.
President Peña Nieto is accompanied by Foreign Secretary Luis Videgaray Caso; the President’s Chief of Staff, Francisco Guzmán Ortiz; the Head of the President’s Press Office, Eduardo Sánchez Hernández; and the Senior Advisor to the President, Carlos Pérez-Verdía Canales.
Mexico promoted creation of the Tuxtla Mechanism in 1991 as a forum for political dialogue, and for strengthening peace and democracy and Mesoamerican regional cooperation. There are 10 member countries: Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panamá.
These 10 Mesoamerican countries represent 37 percent of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean, and Mexico’s trade with them represents 41 percent of its total trade with the region.