- The instruction of President López Obrador is to bring services to our communities, he says to an assembly of over 5,000 people
- The Foreign Ministry will work with the region's mayors to promote agricultural exports
Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard today inaugurated a Foreign Ministry Municipal Liaison Office in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, saying that President López Obrador's administration is committed to bringing services to all of Mexico's people, not just to its capitals.
For the second consecutive day, Foreign Secretary Ebrard inaugurated a Foreign Ministry liaison office in Oaxaca, this time in Tuxtepec. The office will provide services to the Papaloapan region, both in Oaxaca and Veracruz.
Today's inauguration comes after the inauguration yesterday by the Foreign Secretary of an office in Huajapan, which will provide passport services to the Mixtec region of Oaxaca.
In his remarks in Tuxtepec, Secretary Ebrard said, "President López Obrador asked us to bring the Foreign Ministry offices to the places they are needed the most."
"Here in Tuxtepec, in the entire Papaloapan Basin region, there hasn't been a Foreign Ministry office in the more than 200 years of Mexico's independent life," he said to the more than 5,000 people who gathered for the inauguration.
During his meeting with local authorities and residents, Foreign Secretary Ebrard heard requests for the Foreign Ministry to support the region's exporters of agricultural products, such as ginger.
The Foreign Secretary said that the Foreign Ministry is organizing visits of Mexican mayors to different countries to find potential buyers for Mexican exports. "The next trip will be to the United States, and I'm going to invite the mayor again to attend [...] an event for selling the region's natural products."
The recently inaugurated Tuxtepec office will serve the towns of Loma Bonita, Tres Valles, Tierra Blanca, San Miguel Soyaltepec, Ayotzintepec, Tezonapa, Cosolapa, Acatlán de Pérez, Otatitlan, Cosamaloapan, Tlacojalpan, Ojitlan, Jalapa de Díaz, San Felipe Usila, Vicente Beach, Jocotepec, Chiltepec, Santa María Jacatepec and Valle Nacional.
