Adolfo Aguilar Zínser

“We Mexicans have to get used to being adults... We have to get used to speaking in our own voice.”

“The problem is that the United States wants us to be a country that is silent, submissive, that says yes to everything. And we are not going to be that country.”

“The United States is not used to being contradicted and, much less, to being contradicted by a country like Mexico.”

“For Mexico, the price of the friendship is not silence.”

“We are the backyard of the United States. And the relationship is condemned to be a relationship of asymmetry, of prevalence of U.S. interests over Mexican interests.”

“My duty as ambassador to the UN is to represent the interests of Mexico, not to applaud the decisions of others.”

“A relationship based on submission is not a friendship.”