With less than a year left in his term, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, or AMLO, has struggled to make good on his campaign promises to deliver radical transformation. Meanwhile, after spending the first two years in office playing catchup to Donald Trump’s quixotic threats linking trade and immigration, AMLO appears to have put U.S. relations back on solid footing, without entirely resolving some of the tensions in the relationship.
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump upended what was once a relatively staid global economic and trade system. For all of the upheaval he created, though, Trump left office with only one clear-cut accomplishment: an updated NAFTA deal. And even as Trump sowed chaos in America’s trade relationships, most of the world reinforced its commitment to trade liberalization.