President Joe Biden has made a point to differentiate himself on the world stage from his predecessor. With Mexico and Canada, that has meant lots of talk about diplomacy after years of Trump’s attacks and threats against the two U.S. neighbors.
Biden even made Trudeau the first leader he met with virtually after taking office. Although Trump visited Canada for a G-7 summit , the former president did not make an official bilateral visit to Canada to meet with Trudeau., his protectionist policies have made the friendship feel more transactional than neighborly.
But it’s unlikely the two leaders will be able to replicate López Obrador’s friendship with Trump. Both leaders built a relationship based on their respect for each other’s nationalist, authoritarian tendencies and their ability to mostly stay out of each other’s way on domestic issues, in spite of Trump’s regular insults of Mexicans and promises to build a border wall to keep out migrants, criminals, drugs and the coronavirus.
“López Obrador is trying to show he is the president of a sovereign country, but it’s my impression that if Biden and Trudeau talk to him openly, he will listen,” said Martha Bárcena, who stepped down earlier this year as Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Both countries remain in discussions over relaunching the Remain in Mexico policy, which forced migrants to wait in Mexico for their asylum cases to be heard, after a federal judge in August ordered that Biden reinstate the Trump-era rule, which critics say is illegal, inhumane and puts migrants in increased danger. The Biden administration, however,Meanwhile, U.S.
López Obrador, often called by his initials AMLO, has also publicly diverged dramatically from the U.S. on foreign policy issues. In September, he welcomed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel to Mexico for the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States’ summit. The U.S. is not part of the CELAC regional bloc.
“The fact that López Obrador is coming is a good thing,” said a longtime U.S.-Mexico watcher, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly. “He’s coming after hanging out with Maduro and Díaz-Canel and blasting us at the U.N., but the fact he’s coming is inherently a good thing.”
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