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Mexico president set to meet with Trump next week in first-ever foreign visit

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July 1, 2020
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Mexico’s president is poised to hold a first meeting with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump next week after the Mexican government said on Tuesday his delegation had received an invitation to Washington for July 8-9.

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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a combative leftist, has not left his country since taking office in December 2018, and choosing to pay his first foreign visit to Trump is politically risky given the unpopularity of the U.S. president in Mexico.

Two Mexican officials had told Reuters that the visit was likely to take place on July 8-9 and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard signaled those would be the dates.

“I can confirm that we have received an invitation from the U.S. government for an official work visit on July 8 and 9,” Ebrard said on Twitter, adding that the government would provide more information about the upcoming visit on Wednesday.

Ebrard, Mexican Economy Minister Graciela Marquez and presidential Chief-of-Staff Alfonso Romo are due to accompany Lopez Obrador on the journey to Washington.

Ebrard did not say whether the invitation had been accepted, but as it was Lopez Obrador who in April first floated the idea of meeting Trump, that appears very likely.

Lopez Obrador had suggested the Trump talks would be early in July, though on Monday he said it would not be this week.

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The Mexican president says the Trump meeting is intended to celebrate the July 1 start of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a trade deal that is replacing the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

His plan to meet Trump has stirred criticism from both opposition ranks and some of his own supporters.

Trump has been widely disliked in Mexico since he described Mexican migrants as rapists and drug runners in his 2015-16 election campaign and for vowing to make Mexico pay for his planned border wall.

Lopez Obrador has publicly urged Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take part in the meeting, but Canada’s government has given no indication yet that he will attend.


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