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FILE - Mexican President Andres Lopez Obrador stands at the National Palace during a ceremony in Mexico City, Sept. 20, 2022. Mexico’s president on Friday, March 24, 2023 angrily rejected comments by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the Mexican government has lost control of parts of the country. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexican president pushes back on U.S. criticism on violence

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Feb. 28, 2023. Mexico’s president called anti-drug policies in the U.S. a failure Wednesday, March 15, 2023 and proposed a ban on using fentanyl in medicine. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexican president blames U.S. families’ ‘lack of hugs’ for fentanyl crisis

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Feb. 28, 2023. Mexico’s president claimed Monday, March 13, 2023 that his country is safer than the United States. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico safer than the United States says Lopez Obrador

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Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his regularly scheduled morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican president to U.S.: Fentanyl is your problem

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

Anti-government demonstrators shout slogans against Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, during a march against recent reforms to the country's electoral law that they say threaten democracy, in Mexico City's main square, The Zocalo, Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Tens of thousands protest Mexico electoral reforms

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President Joe Biden talks with U.S. Border Patrol agents as they stand along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden flies in to Lopez Obrador’s new airport for summit

By Colleen Long and Maria Verza - Associated Press

This Oct. 17, 2019 frame grab from video provided by the Mexican government shows Ovidio Guzman Lopez at the moment of his detention, in Culiacan, Mexico. Mexican security forces were forced to release the son of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman that day after his gunmen shot up the western city of Culiacan. (CEPROPIE via AP File)

Mexico captures son of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ before Biden visit

By Maria Verza and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

This image released by the FBI shows the wanted poster for Rafael Caro-Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985. Caro-Quintero has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning to drug trafficking, an official with Mexico's navy confirmed Friday, July 15, 2022. (FBI via AP, File) **FILE**

Mexico’s capture of drug kingpin could be signal to U.S.

By Maria Verza and Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

Cuban president Miguel Diaz Canel and his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador chat after signing bilateral agreements at Revolution Palace in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, May 8, 2022. (Yamil Lage/Pool Photo via AP)

Mexico president threatens to skip Americas Summit

By Fabiola Sanchez and Joshua Goodman - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Obrador smiles as people applaud after the playing of the national anthem at the end of an event where he delivered a speech on economic figures, in Mexico City, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican president to talk development, migration on tour

By Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks as he meets with small business owners in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, April 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden, Mexican president confer on migration, other issues

By Josh Boak and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

A billboard featuring Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador with a message encouraging citizens to get out and vote towers over a highway in Mexico City, Saturday, March 26, 2022. On April 10, a presidential recall referendum will be held to revalidate his administration after three years in office. Mexicans will be asked if they want the president to continue in office until 2024 or resign. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexicans vote on recall of president, an effort he asked for

By Fabiola Sanchez - Associated Press

Recently harvested avocados at an orchard near Ziracuaretiro, Michoacan state, Mexico, Oct. 1, 2019. Mexico has acknowledged late Saturday, Feb. 13, 20222, that the U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexican president sees U.S. conspiracy behind avocado ban

By Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican president announces he has COVID-19 for second time

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President Joe Biden waves towards the White House balcony as he leaves the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021 in Washington, to visit General Motors' electric vehicle assembly plant in Detroit. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Differences endure as Biden brings back North America summit

By Aamer Mahdani and Rob Gillies and Maria Verza - Associated Press

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador shows the political party makeup of Congress during his daily news conference “La Mañanera,” after weekend mid-term elections at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Lopez Obrador’s party and its allies appeared poised to maintain their majority in Mexico’s lower chamber of the congress but fell short of a two-thirds majority as some voters boosted the struggling opposition, a significant decline for the president’s party, according to initial election results. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Head of Mexico’s governing party cites middle class failings

By MARIA VERZA - Associated Press

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thumbs up after voting in congressional, state and local elections in Mexico City, Sunday, June 6, 2021. Mexicans on Sunday were electing the entire lower house of Congress, almost half the country's governors and most mayors in a vote that will determine if Obrador's Morena party gets the legislative majority. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico’s president appears to hold key majority in elections

By Christopher Sherman and Mark Stevenson - Associated Press

In this Dec. 18, 2020, file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City. Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is under medical treatment, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico president, to propose immigrant labor program to Joe Biden

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In this April 5, 2020, file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City. For his first foreign trip as president, López Obrador travels to Washington Tuesday, July 7, 2020, to meet with President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador thanks Donald Trump, vows to pay Mexico water debt to U.S.

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Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his daily, morning news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City, Monday, July 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexican transport minister resigns in dispute with president

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