Los Cabos, BCS. _ In the current context, the relationship between Mexico y United States, Enrique Krauze raised the proposal to seek a new understanding and a renaissance in mutual understanding between the two nations.
The intellectual shared with Agustin Coppel Luken in a conversation within the Summit 2024in which the Honorary President of Sea of Cortez Forum asked him about the idea of an integration in North Americaas an example of what has occurred in the European Union.
Krauze stressed that the relationship between Mexico and the United States is rich and full of potential, although underestimated on both sides.
"The United States has not fully realized that Mexico is within the United States. And perhaps we have not fully realized to what degree we are in that complex, but also very rich, relationship that many countries envy," he said.
Krauze said that Mexico has not known how to reach the common American who has a distorted image of our country, and now even more twisted by political inducement, but the Mexican does not know the United States very well either, so there is a pending task to be done.
"There are great books, but we haven't known yet and it's a challenge to take it to that voter in Arizona or in Ohio or in Pennsylvania, who says, 'ah, gee. Mexico and the United States have a much more fruitful and richer neighborhood than I had imagined'. The unfinished business is how we project. That story must be told. There you have the proposal," he said.
Krauze acknowledged that the problem Mexico faces today is a U.S. President who does not seem to be very enamored of the idea of his country, Mexico and Canada becoming a common area, but we can begin to generate a great debate on these issues, even if it is first in small areas, to be able to imagine this idea.
"The first thing we have to do is what you said: imagine it, articulate it, debate it, do what has been done in some academic centers, but continue to do much more, not only with academics, invite writers, artists, intellectuals of all kinds, businessmen, workers, that is, there has to be a great agora," he said.
Krauze emphasized that Mexico and the United States' neighborliness, which Shimon Peres highlighted as enviable, must be faced with maturity and taken care of, because today it is in danger.
