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Mexican President Lopez Obrador to Visit US Next Week

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   Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will travel to Washington
   next week to meet with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.

   Mexican Foreign Minister MarceloEbrardannounced on Twitter Tuesday that
   Lopez Obrador will spend two days in Washington beginning July
   8.Ebrardsaid further details about the visit will be released later
   Wednesday.

   The visit with President Trump will be the first foreign trip for Lopez
   Obrador since he first took office in December 2018. He said earlier
   this week that his trip to the United States will celebrate the start
   of the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, which goes into effect
   Wednesday.

   But Lopez Obrador has come under intense criticism for his planned
   visit with Trump, who is widely disliked for demonizing Mexican
   immigrants as drug dealers and criminals when he launched his
   presidential campaign, as well as his vow to make Mexico pay for
   building a proposed wall at U.S.-Mexican border.