López Obrador’s ‘diplomatic pause’ chills relations with the US and Canada

“It is good, but it is on hold.” This is how Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded this week to a reporter’s question about the state of bilateral relations with the United States, after Ambassador Ken Salazar openly questioned the president’s judicial reform. “Pausing means that we are going to take our time,” added López Obrador, who also took aim at the Canadian representative, Ambassador Graeme C. Clark, who was collaterally affected by the controversy.

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