Mexican Diplomacy in the Chapultepec Accords Negotiation Process

Mexico’s strong tradition of prioritizing neighboring countries in its foreign relations, in particular its friends in Central America, with occasional involvement in pursuing peaceful solutions to domestic conflicts in order to avoid bloodshed and any international spillover of conflicts which could, due to their proximity, eventually lead to consequences in Mexico, always undertaken in careful consultation with national authorities, as has been the case in Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, which it has combined with immediate support in reacting to natural disasters that have occurred in the region, constitute a significant feature of Mexican foreign policy, which has not only seen the prompt actions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but also the constant support of other government agencies such as the Ministry of National Defense and the Navy, etc. This short article gives an account of Mexican participation in the conflict that affected the neighboring Republic of El Salvador in the midst of the Cold War and draws together information from various sources in an effort to explain to the reader not only the basis for Mexico’s actions, which continue to influence us today, but also in this case the positive outcome obtained through the clear congruence of endeavors between the Contadora Group, in which Mexico participated from the outset, and the Secretaries-General of the UN and the OAS.