the president wraps up his two-day visit to Guadalajara, Mexico, where he's taking part in a summit with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
"President Barack Obama's first North American summit is proving it's a lot easier to agree on battling a killer flu virus than to untangle knotty disputes over cross-border trade," writes the Associated Press' Mark S. Smith. "Obama flew into Mexico's second-largest city late Sunday for a two-day speed summit ... a meeting whose main accomplishment will likely be a joint plan of attack for swine flu.
"But there was little chance of any breakthrough in long-running squabbles over Mexican trucks, or U.S. 'Buy American' rules or how best to curb the deadly flow of drugs across the frontier.
"The so called 'Three Amigos' summit began over dinner at an ornate cultural center here and was to conclude a mere 17 hours later at a joint news conference."
"President Obama arrived here Sunday on his second official visit this year and quickly headed for a 45-minute meeting with his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon," report the Los Angeles Times' Peter Nicholas and Tracy Wilkinson from Guadalajara, Mexico.
"In the session, which one senior U.S. official called 'cordial,' Calderon broached the U.S. ban on Mexican truckers, which has sparked punitive action by Mexico and cries of protectionism…
"As for Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is displeased with 'Buy American' provisions in the stimulus bill Obama signed into law in February. And Canada and Mexico are sparring over Ottawa's requirement that visitors from Mexico obtain visas -- triggering a retaliatory requirement that officials working in Mexico for Canada also acquire visas."
"The North American Leaders' Summit is an annual gathering for the presidents of the United States and Mexico and the prime minister of Canada to work collaboratively on issues such as border security, immigration reform and economic recovery," adds the Washington Post's Cheryl W. Thompson. "It is Obama's second visit to Mexico since he became president and his second meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is scheduled to visit the White House next month. Obama and Harper met in Ottawa in February and agreed to work together to fight the global economic recession."
"President Barack Obama's first North American summit is proving it's a lot easier to agree on battling a killer flu virus than to untangle knotty disputes over cross-border trade," writes the Associated Press' Mark S. Smith. "Obama flew into Mexico's second-largest city late Sunday for a two-day speed summit ... a meeting whose main accomplishment will likely be a joint plan of attack for swine flu.
"But there was little chance of any breakthrough in long-running squabbles over Mexican trucks, or U.S. 'Buy American' rules or how best to curb the deadly flow of drugs across the frontier.
"The so called 'Three Amigos' summit began over dinner at an ornate cultural center here and was to conclude a mere 17 hours later at a joint news conference."
"President Obama arrived here Sunday on his second official visit this year and quickly headed for a 45-minute meeting with his Mexican counterpart, Felipe Calderon," report the Los Angeles Times' Peter Nicholas and Tracy Wilkinson from Guadalajara, Mexico.
"In the session, which one senior U.S. official called 'cordial,' Calderon broached the U.S. ban on Mexican truckers, which has sparked punitive action by Mexico and cries of protectionism…
"As for Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper is displeased with 'Buy American' provisions in the stimulus bill Obama signed into law in February. And Canada and Mexico are sparring over Ottawa's requirement that visitors from Mexico obtain visas -- triggering a retaliatory requirement that officials working in Mexico for Canada also acquire visas."
"The North American Leaders' Summit is an annual gathering for the presidents of the United States and Mexico and the prime minister of Canada to work collaboratively on issues such as border security, immigration reform and economic recovery," adds the Washington Post's Cheryl W. Thompson. "It is Obama's second visit to Mexico since he became president and his second meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is scheduled to visit the White House next month. Obama and Harper met in Ottawa in February and agreed to work together to fight the global economic recession."
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