{"id":8551,"date":"2017-12-12T12:12:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T18:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/?p=8551"},"modified":"2018-02-01T12:52:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T18:52:17","slug":"mexico-to-discuss-security-with-u-s-in-parallel-to-nafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrgibroker.com\/en\/mexico-to-discuss-security-with-u-s-in-parallel-to-nafta\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico to Discuss Security With U.S. in Parallel to Nafta"},"content":{"rendered":"

From: Bloomberg \/ Eric Martin \/ 11 de Diciembre de 2017<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mexico\u2019s top diplomatic and interior officials will visit Washington this week to discuss security cooperation with their U.S. counterparts at the same time that negotiators work to overhaul Nafta, according to four people familiar with the plans.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The visit by Mexican Foreign Relations Minister Luis Videgaray and Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong to meet with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday is a follow-up to meetings in\u00a0May<\/a>, according to the people, who asked not to be named before the agenda is made public. It\u2019s aimed at coming up with strategies to combat transnational criminal organizations, the people said. The press office of the Mexican Foreign Ministry and the U.S. State Department declined to immediately comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The meetings coincide with a sitdown by negotiators from the U.S., Mexico and Canada to update the North American Free Trade Agreement at the demand of U.S. President Donald Trump, who says the deal is responsible for hundreds of thousands of lost manufacturing jobs in the U.S. In an interview last month, Videgaray said that if the Nafta renegotiation encounters trouble, it could impact other areas of cooperation with the U.S. such as security and immigration. Mexico this year has seen homicides surge to the highest levels of this century, surpassing the previous record levels of the drug war from 2010 to 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s good for Mexico that we cooperate with the U.S. on security and also on migration and many other issues,\u201d Videgaray said in the interview in Vietnam on Nov. 11. \u201cBut it\u2019s a fact of life and there is a political reality that a bad outcome on Nafta will have some impact on that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want that to happen, and we\u2019re working hard to get to a good outcome.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Videgaray told reporters last month that Mexico is prepared for the end of Nafta if it can\u2019t reach a deal with the U.S. and Canada that benefits the nation. The three countries in August began talks to rework the pact after Trump pledged during the 2016 campaign to overhaul or end it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The latest meetings to revamp Nafta, taking place at the Mayflower Hotel, will run through Friday, largely out of the spotlight. Cabinet-level officials aren\u2019t scheduled to attend for the second time since negotiations began, and the Trump administration is preoccupied with efforts to push through tax cuts by year-end and avoid a government shutdown. Videgaray\u2019s portfolio includes the broad bilateral relationship with the U.S., while a team led by Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo has been focused on the commercial details of the Nafta negotiation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From: Bloomberg \/ Eric Martin \/ 11 de Diciembre de 2017<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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