What to Expect from Biden and Mexico’s López Obrador’s Relationship in a Post-Trump World
What to Expect from Biden and Mexico’s López Obrador’s Relationship in a Post-Trump World
“It’s fundamental for the United States and Mexico to get their relationship right — and both sides know that,” said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth to Politico.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico worked with former President Donald Trump in spite of his regular insults of Mexicans and his promises to build a border wall to keep out migrants, criminals, drugs and the coronavirus. He even came to call Trump a friend.
Now, López Obrador is tasked with making a new — less firebrand, more diplomatic — friend in the United States: President Joe Biden…
“It’s fundamental for the United States and Mexico to get their relationship right — and both sides know that,” said Eric Farnsworth, vice president of the think tank Council of the Americas and a former U.S. government official. “The issues themselves are going to be complicated, but these are two longtime politicians, who get the importance of the personal touch and the bilateral relationship.”…
“The challenge for the White House on immigration won’t be Mexico, it’ll be the U.S. Congress,” Farnsworth said, pointing to how Congress has repeatedly failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform — and it remains to be seen what the current Democratic-majority Congress will pass this year…
