Obama Arrives in Mexican Capital to Meet With New Leader
Source: NY Times
MEXICO CITY — President Obama arrived here Thursday afternoon for talks with President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico, with both leaders seeking to shift attention from the security issues that have dominated in recent years to the vast economic relationship between the two nations.
But the two presidents were sure to face sharp questions about Mr. Peña Nieto’s commitment to working closely with United States intelligence and drug enforcement personnel in the fight against Mexico’s violent drug trafficking organizations.
Mr. Peña Nieto, who took office in December, has made steps in recent months to centralize his country’s fight against violence, rethinking some long-standing cooperative agreements with Washington.
Mr. Obama said this week that the jury was out on whether those changes would prove problematic for the fight against drug trafficking. At a news conference on Tuesday, he said that he would not “judge yet how this will alter the relationship.”
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