Six months and Marco Rubio hasn't come to Mexico.

On Monday, 25 countries signed a letter urging Israel to end its attacks on the Gaza Strip. Mexico was not present.

That same Monday, in Santiago, the presidents of Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Spain, and Uruguay signed a letter in favor of democracy. Mexico was not present. However, Gabriel Boric revealed that Mexico will join the group.

Michael Shifter, of the Inter-American Dialogue think tank, warned that the meeting of the five supposedly progressive presidents could mark the beginning of the construction of an anti-Donald Trump bloc. "It's reasonable to think that Trump could view the meeting as a hostile message toward the United States." (AFP)

The participants in the Santiago meeting came for various reasons: Sánchez, facing corruption issues within his party and the far right rising in the polls; Lula, facing problems with Bolsonaro through the White House; Petro, facing problems with himself; he doesn't know what to do as president with a lifelong discourse designed to combat power; Boric, facing the waning enthusiasm he generated upon arriving at the Palacio de la Moneda; Orsi, an unknown.

The day Ursula von der Leyen was jumping for joy at the conclusion of the EU-Mexico Global Agreement negotiations, the Mexican president declared that the negotiations were not concluded. Fear of Trump?

It's been 10 months since he took office, but his relationship with the United States hasn't been able to calibrate. I don't know if President Claudia Sheinbaum has realized that US foreign policy, since Trump took office, has been two-headed.

One is the one we all know. It originates in the White House and is made explicit by President Trump.

The second head, and no less important, is the one designed by Marco Rubio.

The Mexican president is seen and heard responding to Trump's decisions related to Mexico, but not to those of Marco Rubio. For example, the revocation of visas for Mexican officials who have been involved in the hiring of Cuban doctors, whose regime treats them like slaves.

What's more, Clara Brugada and Gerardo F. Noroña are tasked with responding (perhaps unwittingly) to Marco Rubio. Their love for the repressive Cuban regime has created antibodies in their fight against the United States. Rubio knows this. It's unknown if President Sheinbaum knows this.

It would be worthwhile for the president to convene a meeting with ambassadors and former foreign secretaries to hear a different, and above all, unbiased, assessment of the relationship with the United States. I'm thinking of Jorge Castañeda, José Antonio Meade, Luis Videgaray, Patricia Espinosa, and Martha Bárcena, among others.

It's been six months, and Marco Rubio hasn't come to Mexico. Will they find out the reason at the National Palace, or should I tell them?