And while the agreement creating this historic corridor across the three countries was the centerpiece of the trilateral meeting - both Belize and Guatemala also held bi-lateral meetings with the Mexican president. For Belize, one of the priorities was our continuing energy dependence on our neighbor to the north:...
John Briceno, Prime Minister of Belize
"Well we are, we that is a part of the agenda that we're going to talk about energy, and we want to ensure that, that Mexico will continue to support us or to be able to sell enough energy so we do not have the outages that we had the last, last year. But also importantly, Belize now is working towards having more sustainable forms of energy. We just, put out a call for up to 80 megawatts of solar. And then the governments working on. Another 40MW of solar and then they are other companies that also want to come into Belize to produce energy. Our plan is to be able to be self sustainable, to do, to depend as much as possible on sustainable forms of of energy. But at the same time, we want to be able to, to connect to the, to the Central American grid and that then we could produce enough people to sell into Central American grid or into Mexico."
