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LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

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June 13, 2022

What Do AMLO & Biden Have to Gain in Today’s Meeting?

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and U.S. President Joe Biden, pictured last November, are to meet today at the White House. // File Photo: White House.

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Andrés Rozental, member of the Advisor board and president of Rozental & Asociados: “The current state of the Mexico-U.S. relationship can only be described as hanging by a thread. Even though President Biden gave the Mexican leader a face-saving exit from his insulting nonattendance at the Summit of the Americas, the number of grievances, tensions and substantive differences that characterize this most important relationship have reached one of the lowest points in recent decades, even if one includes the Trump years. It’s no secret that AMLO strongly dislikes the United States and, like many left-leaning ideologues in Mexico, fears our more powerful northern neighbor. He has tried, with limited success so far, to stay on Biden’s good side by making Mexico deploy large human and financial resources to keep migrants from Central America and other countries from reaching the U.S. border. Although this ‘wonderful cooperation’ that…”

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