Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador began his trip to the United States – his first foreign trip as president – with visits Wednesday to the Lincoln Memorial and the statue of Benito Juarez, a former president and national hero in Mexico.
Later in the day, he will be at the White House for talks with President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly taken shots at Mexico and Mexican migrants to rally his base.
The visit, coming just four months before US elections, has many Mexicans cringing.
Trump has insulted them, threatened crippling tariffs to strong-arm Mexico into playing an uncomfortable role in US immigration policy and insisted they will pay for a border wall meant to keep migrants out of the US.
But López Obrador has had a surprisingly warm relationship with Trump.
He likes to point out that more recently Trump helped Mexico reach a deal with other oil-producing nations to cut production and aided Mexico in obtaining more ventilators to face the coronavirus pandemic.
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