Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, president of Mexico, speaks in Mexico City in January 2019. - Sashenka Gutierrez/EFE/Zuma Press/TNS
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — whose country is a pass-through for the record-number of people trying to reach the United States — has invited Latin American and Caribbean leaders to meet this weekend to tackle the tide of migrants overwhelming governments across the hemisphere. Sunday’s meeting will take place in Palenque, a city in the southern state of Chiapas, a gateway for migrants coming into Mexico that borders Guatemala. It comes nearly a year and a half after the Biden administration hosted the Ninth Summit of the Americas, in which Mexico, the United States and other...
