President Biden arrived in Mexico City on Sunday evening and rode with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in a limousine from the airport. The trip marks the first visit to Mexico by a U.S. president in nine years.
For all the good will on display, though, there is considerable friction between the neighbors. The Mexican president, a longtime leftist icon popularly known as
Biden’s visit to Mexico is the first of what could ultimately be more than a half-dozen international trips in 2023, a ramped-up schedule that reflects an increased focus on foreign affairs as a divided Congress makes legislating less likely.
López Obrador’s biggest public request in the run-up to Biden’s visit was that the U.S. leader’s plane land at the recently opened Felipe Ángeles airport. Opposition politicians have accused López Obrador of wasting billions of dollars by constructing the military-run facility instead of finishing another partially built airport that he had alleged was tainted by corruption.
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