Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he spoke with US president-elect Joe Biden by phone, five days after he sent a tardy and somewhat chilly letter of congratulations to Mr Biden.
“We reaffirmed our commitment to work together for the good of our peoples and our countries,” Mr Lopez Obrador wrote in his social media accounts.
Mr Biden’s transition team said the two discussed migration, apparently with a focus on a theme that Mr Lopez Obrador has championed: developing jobs and opportunities so that people will not have to migrate.
“The president-elect emphasised the need to reinvigorate US-Mexico cooperation to ensure safe and orderly migration, contain Covid-19, revitalise the economies of North America, and secure our common border,” said a statement posted on Mr Biden’s transition website.