President Obama to Find New Foreign-Policy Challenge in Mexico Next Week Kevin G. Hall and Hannah Allam - McClatchy Newspapers
go to original April 22, 2013

Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Jose Antonio Meade (EFE)

WASHINGTON — On the eve of President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico next week, the new government there looks to reboot a joint effort to combat violent drug traffickers, worries about piecemeal efforts in the United States to legalize marijuana and hopes to rebuild frayed relations with Cuba.

In a wide-ranging interview, Mexican Foreign Secretary Jose Antonio Meade also said the return to power of the Institutional Revolutionary Party wouldn’t mean a reversal of his country’s willingness to extradite nationals wanted in the United States.

“There is no plan to change the way that extraditions have been working,” said Meade, a Yale-educated economist who served as Mexico’s finance secretary before the change of administration in December. He spoke to McClatchy at the Mexican Embassy in Washington in advance of Obama’s trip to Mexico City on May 2.

Obama will meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto as analysts look for signs of change after the new president’s party returned to power for the first time since it was voted out in 2000 after seven decades of control.

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