Mexico, U.S. Presidents To Meet Amid Newly Tense Relationship
Newsy
The meeting comes a month after Mexico's president snubbed President Biden's invitation to the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
The U.S.-Mexico relationship — a straightforward trade-off during the Trump administration, with Mexico tamping down on migration and the U.S. not pressing on other issues — has become a wide range of disagreements over trade, foreign policy, energy and climate change.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is to visit Washington on Tuesday to meet with President Joe Biden, a month after López Obrador snubbed President Biden's invitation to the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Mexico's leader had demanded that Biden invite to the summit the leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela — all countries with anti-democratic regimes — and he has also called U.S. support for Ukraine "a crass error."
On that, and other issues, it's clear López Obrador is getting along much worse with President Biden than with Donald Trump, who threatened Mexico, but wanted only one thing from his southern neighbor: stop migrants from reaching the border.
