Contributing to world détente has always been an objective of Mexican foreign policy, which today is facing an especially difficult test in the Central American area. In this region where war has ended up becoming a daily danger, Mexico has concentrated its peacemaking efforts together with Colombia, Panama and Venezuela, countries with which it joined the Contadora Group in January 1983. One year after its creation, the Group has won wide international support. Complicated as the Contadora Group's progress has been, it cannot be said that the attempt has been in vain or that no effort has been spared in achieving its fundamental purpose: to contain the war in Central America and offer paths to peace. The Central American countries have accepted commitments as important as those contained in the "Document of Objectives" and in the "Rules for the execution of the commitments assumed in the Document of Objectives", both inspired by the proposal of the Contadora Group, embodied in the Cancun Declaration on Peace in Central America. The Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior of the Matías Romero Institute for Diplomatic Studies considers the disclosure of these documents to be very important, as a sign of its own commitment to make public opinion aware of the most outstanding lines of international policy in Mexico. In this sense, this number also includes some works that touch directly or indirectly, the subject of Mexican policy towards Central America, together with others that refer to issues that are also important on Mexico's international agenda.