Obama Supports New Mexican Drug Security Policy to Cut Down on Killings and Violence MercoPress
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Obama and Peña Nieto more interested in fostering trade, investment and jobs Obama and Peña Nieto more interested in fostering trade, investment and jobs.

President Barack Obama gave his blessing to a new security arrangement with Mexican leader Enrique Peña Nieto, in which Mexico will make reducing violence a priority over hunting drug cartel kingpins in the war against organized crime. The two presidents said they also want to step up trade and business ties that have been overshadowed by the battle against drug trafficking.

“It is obviously up to the Mexican people to determine their security structures and how it engages with other nations including the United States,” Obama said at a joint press conference with Peña Nieto on Thursday.

At the start of a two-day visit to Mexico, Obama sought to draw attention to the emerging might of Latin America's No.2 economy, even as worries about containing drug-trafficking and related violence remained an inescapable subtext.

The two leaders pledged to begin holding cabinet level meetings focused on boosting business between the two countries and to expand educational changes. The first high-level meeting is set for the fall.

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