For his first trip outside Mexico in 18 months as president, Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, "AMLO", finally chose to go to his imperious neighbor to the north to meet, finally, the American president Donald Trump.
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The Mexican head of state, who likes to recall that "the best foreign policy is good domestic policy" and has long spread the rumor that he did not have a passport, will nevertheless travel by commercial plane to Washington during the pandemic to celebrate the entry into force of the new free trade treaty signed with the United States and Canada (Aceum) which replaces the NAFTA.
Four months before the US presidential election and in the midst of the coronavirus turmoil, the announcement of this move triggered an avalanche of criticism from both sides of the border. Editorial writers and former diplomats have succeeded in the columns of the press to question the relevance of a visit by Lopez Obrador in a context as
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