Mexico Wants Secure Border with Guatemala, Foreign Secretary Meade Says EFE
go to original April 15, 2013

Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade (EFE/SRE)

MEXICO CITY - Mexico wants its border with Guatemala to be "prosperous and secure," Foreign Relations Secretary Jose Antonio Meade said.

Meade inspected the Mexican-Guatemalan border region this weekend with SAT tax agency chief Aristoteles Nuñez Sanchez.

He later met with Chiapas Gov. Manuel Velasco in the city of Comitan de Dominguez.

"This was about taking a direct approach" in developing "a precise analysis of the current conditions in the zone in the social, economic and infrastructure areas, and in the presence of authorities at the different border crossings," Meade said in a statement.

The approximately 1,000-kilometer (621-mile) border is of strategic importance to Mexico, the foreign relations secretary said.

The eight official border crossings handle about 1.8 million people annually, the Foreign Relations Secretariat said.

Tens of thousands of migrants, the majority of them Central Americans, cross the Mexican-Guatemalan border each year on their way to the United States.

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