Obama, Peña Nieto Discuss U.S.-Mexico Cooperation

Mexico’s president-elect, Enrique Peña Nieto, left, shares his ideas with President Obama on how Mexico and the United States can work together. Photo: ©AP Images

President Obama and Mexico’s next president, Enrique Peña Nieto, exchanged ideas for advancing U.S.-Mexican cooperation bilaterally, regionally and globally in their first meeting. In Washington November 27, Peña Nieto said the Mexican and the U.S. governments are committed to creating more jobs for their citizens and further integration of the North American economies with each other and with Asia through the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Eleven nations on the western and eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean are currently negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership to create a trading group with minimal barriers that would set the standard for free trade in the 21st century. Read the full article.

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