Mexico’s foreign policy is unambitious and erratic
Blame its president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s president, is no globetrotter. His trip to San Francisco on November 15th to attend the summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation, an economic club of 21 countries, was only his seventh foreign jaunt in five years in office. Before going, he said: “I won’t go the whole time. It’s going to be, like, you arrive a day before, sleep, participate, eat—and come home.” Since becoming president, he has not visited a single country outside the Americas.
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This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Missing in action”
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