After recently shunning an invitation to attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador travels this week to the White House for a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden.

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The meeting on Tuesday (July 12) comes at a time of great opportunity for economic cooperation between the neighboring countries after the coronavirus and Russia’s attack on Ukraine destabilized global supply chains and energy markets.

There is a realignment around the world “and Biden is gathering his allies,” said the head of the Migration Policy Institute, Andrew Selee, during a webinar on the visit organized by the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute. Selee added that both Biden and López Obrador, or AMLO, are “old school politicians”...