Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has been treading a fine diplomatic line with US counterpart Donald Trump, said Thursday the two of them had a “productive and cordial” telephone call on trade and security issues.
On security, “we both agreed that things are going very well,” she told reporters after Trump had threatened land attacks against drug cartels to follow recent US maritime operations in the Pacific and Caribbean.
Since seizing Venezuela’s president Nicolas Maduro in a deadly military operation, Trump has made threats against other leftist governments in the region, including Cuba, Colombia and Mexico.
Sheinbaum said a review of the US-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement USMCA, which Trump has said is unfavorable to his country, is still “underway.”
The agreement is critical to the economy of Mexico, which sends 80 percent of its exports to the United States.
Trump has so far broadly adhered to the existing free trade agreement, which he signed and praised during his first term.
But the Trump administration has indicated it could seek major changes, or may move to scrap the pact entirely.
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