Mexico Trade Deal With U.S. Lets AMLO Focus on Domestic Goals
- Lopez Obrador’s promises include poverty, violence reduction
- President-elect touring country before Dec. 1 inauguration
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The trade deal reached with the U.S. and Canada removes a major cloud hanging over Mexico’s president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, allowing him to focus on domestic priorities of reducing poverty and drug violence once he takes office.
AMLO, as the leftist incoming president is known, this week praised the USMCA agreement and had only positive things to say after a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump. Still, his next steps will likely be concentrated at home, with a push to root out corruption, reduce government inefficiency and restore peace after record years for homicide.