Mexican President LópezObrador to meet Biden

President Andrés Manuel LópezObrador is to visit Washington on Tuesday to meet with President Joe Biden. Last month LópezObrador snubbed Biden's invitation to the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.Mexico's leader had demanded that Biden invite to the summit the leaders of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, all countries with anti-democratic regimes, and he has also called U.S. support for Ukraine "a crass error."U.S. officials want LópezObrador to retreat on his reliance on fossil fuels and his campaign to favor Mexico's state-owned electricity utility at the expense of foreign-built plants powered by gas and renewable energy.

What the Mexican president is interested in talking about is inflation, which in June spiked to almost 8%.Inflation and the economic after-effects of the pandemic are leading an increasing number of Mexicans to emigrate."We can join ranks and work in mutual agreement to control inflation in the United States and in Mexico," he said.