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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 16 June 2017

GUATEMALA: Shoring up ties with Mexico

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto last week paid his first state visit to Guatemala since President Jimmy Morales and his right-wing Frente de Convergencia Nacional (FCN-Nación) government took office in January 2016. The meeting produced various agreements by the two leaders who remain united in the face of the challenge posed by US President Donald Trump, whose ‘America-first’ agenda includes hard-line actions for stopping illegal migration (such as the construction of a wall on the US border with Mexico and stepping up deportations) and economic protectionism.

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