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Weekly Report - 10 March 2011 (WR-11-10)

MEXICO: Relations with US deteriorating

President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa met President Barack Obama at the White House on 3 March. The fifth meeting between the two leaders was clearly the most difficult yet. In the run-up to the meeting both sides had been signalling what they wanted from the summit. Calderón made it increasingly clear, culminating in a series of interviews with the Washington Post just before he met Obama, that he wanted the US ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, recalled. The US's two main ambitions from the summit were to have the Mexican suspects accused of killing an Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent extradited to face trial in the US and to persuade Mexico to drop its ban on US officials carrying weapons in Mexico. Although the US got more than Mexico out of the summit, the only clear result was an announcement of another attempt to resolve the longstanding dispute over Mexican trucks' access to US highways.

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