Showing posts with label obama calderon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obama calderon. Show all posts

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Obama and Calderon Press Conference Video

See more video of Obama in Mexico here.

Obama speaks at a dinner at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico:

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Calderon Cleaning House in Mexico

Obama's set to visit Felipe Calderon tomorrow in Mexico. Read more about that here. His Mexico trip will be followed up by a trip to Trinidad and Tobago for the Summits of the Americas.
Andrea Mitchell says Calderon feels there is a new opportunity with Obama. Mitchell says we are exporting our recession to Mexico, which is just starting to feel it. She also said Mexico is willing to be an intermediary between Havana and Washington.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Obama Praises Calderon in Meeting Today

President-elect Barack Obama said President Felipe Calderon of Mexico is “moving his country in a direction that is unprecedented” on energy policy and said the U.S. relationship with its southern neighbor is “critical” to the economy.
The “friendship between the U.S. and Mexico has been strong,” Obama told reporters today after meeting with Calderon at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington. “I believe it can be even stronger.”
Calderon said he looks forward to stronger ties with the U.S.
“The more secure Mexico is, the more secure the U.S. will be,” he said.

They didn't talk of NAFTA, the trade agreement that Obama suggested he might want to restructure - but:
Three Obama advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity last month, said he will order a study on Nafta and then seek longer-term negotiations with Mexico and Canada on how to change it.
Mexico is the third-largest U.S. trading partner, exchanging about $347 billion in goods last year. Bloomberg