The relationship between the US and Mexico is being strained in the final days of the Lopez Obrador government, deepening tensions that hang over their free-trade deal ahead of a review scheduled for 2026.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is under pressure from US lawmakers to back off plans to seize a port and limestone quarry owned by Alabama-based Vulcan Materials. AMLO, as the Mexican president is known, leaves office next week.
AMLO last month promised to turn the Vulcan facility on Mexico’s Caribbean coast into a natural protected area, which the construction firm says is illegal and equivalent to ...
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