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Moving on from the Trump years, the two discussed immigration, the pandemic and climate change during a virtual meeting.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is expected to ask Biden to share US vaccination supply with Mexico.
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Most of the effort is concentrated in rural communities, but hundreds also rolled up their sleeves in Mexico City.
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The nation confronts a stalled vaccination campaign and a president who downplays the threats of the pandemic.
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Lopez Obrador urged migrants not to believe traffickers who tell them they could get US legal status immediately.
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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says US should probe case against former minister Salvador Cienfuegos.
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Guanajuato is at the centre of a turf war between rival organised crime groups in which thousands have been killed.
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Salvador Cienfuegos was accused of conspiring with a cartel to smuggle drugs while serving as defence secretary.
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The case prompted the government to threaten a review of agreements allowing US agents to operate in Mexico.
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US allegations about retired General Salvador Cienfuegos’s links to drug traffickers have rattled Mexico.
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Authorities say it was taken away for restoration work but added it was also time for reflection on Columbus’s legacy.
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Leftist AMLO has requested that the Senate vote on possible trials for his five centrist, right-wing predecessors.
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A bilateral agreement from 1944 requires Mexico to divert waters to the US as Mexican regions experience drought.
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Brazil’s pandemic response has been to spend heavily while Mexico has done the opposite and is in a deep slump.