UPI By Adam Schrader & Darryl Coote
U.S. President Joe Biden met Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the National Palace on Monday amid tensions between the North American allies over irregular immigration at their shared border and the drug crisis.
First lady Jill Biden accompanied her husband on the trip, and participated with her Mexican counterpart, Beatriz Gutierrez Muller, in a lavish opening ceremony during which the women offered a joint message of solidarity that contrasted with comments later made by their husbands.
In remarks to the media during a meeting in Mexico City that the White House described as meant to strengthen bilateral cooperation, Obrador described Biden as “a humanistic and visionary ruler” while calling on him to invest more capital in Latin America for the benefit of all those on the continent.
