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Jose Antonio Meade attends a meeting with the party's Red Youth For Mexico in Mexico City.
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Few people are cheering the prospect of several more months of Nafta talks. Mexico’s ruling party may be among that small group.
The country is cranking into campaign mode at the same time as it prepares to host the latest round of trade wrangling next week. That means Mexican negotiators have a kind of dual mandate. They have to pursue the best outcome for the nation, while keeping one eye out for their bosses in the governing PRI, which is seeking to hang on to the presidency in July’s election.