For several decades, the Mexican government, taking advantage of its geographical location, as well as the growing weight and influence of Asia-Pacific worldwide, has opted to develop a strategy of rapprochement, integration and projection towards that region. The aim of this issue of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior is to return the Pacific to its centrality and to carry out a reflection on the challenges and opportunities offered to Mexico by a greater link with this region, which is so strategic for its foreign policy.

Issue 107 of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior is dedicated to Mexican communities abroad. In its ten articles, authors of recognized prestige, both academics and public officials, analyze and reflect on this topic, located at the center of Mexican foreign policy.

Five years after its launch, the Pacific Alliance stands out for its ability to generate substantive agreements among its members and for consolidating itself as a mechanism for deep integration, with a regional scope and open to other integration spaces, in accordance with the trends that they define the logic of global trade in the world of the 21st century. With great political will and a good dose of pragmatism, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru have built an ambitious alliance based on the free mobility of goods, services, capital, and people, adding to this cooperation for development. Due to the relevance that the Alliance has in the Latin American, Caribbean and global spheres, the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior has decided to dedicate its 106th issue to it.

As has happened with other special issues of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior, dedicated to figures of letters and diplomacy, readers are offered a series of texts on the figure and work of Rafael Bernal (Mexico City, 1915-Fribourg, Switzerland, 1972). Although his best-known facet is that of a narrator, founder of the noir novel with his famous El complot mongol, Bernal also stood out in other tasks: as a historian, documentalist and as a diplomat with an undoubted talent for carefully observing and interpreting the events of international relations.

A diferencia de anteriores entregas de la Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior, centradas en el análisis de un tema integral relativo a la actualidad de nuestras relaciones internacionales, el volumen que ahora ofrecemos a nuestros lectores recoge un abanico de reflexiones sobre diferentes temas que conciernen directa e indirectamente a la política exterior mexicana.

In issue 104 of Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior "Local Governments: International Actors", the increasing prominence that local and regional governments acquire on the international scene is highlighted, questioning the traditional vision of international relations and opening a panorama to a new type of foreign connection, from the local, with relationships based on horizontality, strategic alliances and interdependence. The coordinators invited a representative panel of European and Latin American experts, who contribute to the debate from two complementary perspectives: the theoretical analysis of the academy and the practical experience of professionals in local governments.

It presents to a specialized audience and the general public, a multifaceted analysis of what this transition means on the global scale from the MDGs to the SDGs, and what implications it has for Mexico.

The commemoration of the centenary of Octavio Paz, by public and private institutions, has been prolific in events, exhibitions, round tables, editions and reviews of his multiple legacies. In it, a reflection could not be absent about the importance that it had in this chancellery, and the importance that this chancellery had in its development. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs joins all these recognitions for a particular reason: Octavio Paz was a neat professional and irreproachable member of the Mexican Foreign Service, a remarkable man of ideas and letters, but also of diplomatic actions in favor of our country and of its international action.

The issue 102 of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior de Relaciones Internacionales collects the history, current affairs and challenges of international cooperation for the development of Mexico.

The purpose of issue 101 of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior is to offer a first approach, not only practical, but theoretical, of consular diplomacy in Mexico, through which its development is analyzed, and officials contributed to the preparation of this valuable document that provides readers with a complete and comprehensive vision of the consular and presents it, in addition to the work that is carried out every day in consulates and embassies, as a tool that forges foreign policy and the image of Mexico as a responsible global actor, with more presence and commitment in the international system.

The Matías Romero Institute is proud to make available to readers the 100th installment of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior after being founded a little over thirty years ago and directed by outstanding diplomats and internationalists, the RMPE has established itself as a space for public deliberation on foreign policy and international relations. As can be seen, its editorial design has also been transformed and its content will henceforth be accompanied by the standards that distinguish specialized magazines. We hope that this new design will be to the liking of our readers.

The holding of the seminar "The Role of Mexico's Foreign Policy in the Peace Process in El Salvador", which took place on April 27, 2012, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Peace Agreements in El Salvador, It is, in a certain sense, the origin of the special number of the Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior. The texts selected in this special issue offer a historical panorama of the Central American region and a retrospective diagnosis of the economic, political and social conditions that led to an armed conflict. Other texts collect and gloss initiatives such as the Franco-Mexican Declaration on El Salvador, of August 28, 1981, while others deal with the trajectory of the Contadora Group, a notable diplomatic coordination mechanism. Likewise, texts and testimonies are included that account for the role of Mexican diplomacy in the negotiation process of the Chapultepec Agreements, signed in Mexico by the Salvadoran government and the insurgent forces in January 1992.