Guadalajara -
Mexico's Office of Foreign Secretary announced yesterday that president Barack Obama has accepted an invitation from president Enrique Peña Nieto to visit the country the first week of May.
President Obama made his first official trip to Mexico in April 2009, three months after taking office. He visited again later that year to attend a summit of North American leaders in Guadalajara, and in June 2012 to participate in the G-20 economic summit at Los Cabos, in Baja California.
On both occasions his host was former president Felipe Calderón, who now teaches at Harvard.
Although the two men met in Washington in November 2012 shortly before president Peña Nieto assumed office, this will be their first encounter in Mexico since the latter was sworn in on Dec. 1.
A full range of bilateral topics will be on the agenda, the Foreign Secretary reported, but commerce, economic matters, immigration and Mexico's 75 month old drug war will be the most important. President Obama will be in Mexico May 2-4 before departing for Costa Rica.
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