The White House will be the setting on Thursday for the trilateral meeting between the leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada.
A pandemic and a presidency of Donald Trump later, Joe Biden, Justin Trudeau and Andrés Manuel López Obrador resume a summit which, since 2005, brought together the three countries practically every year until June 2016, when Barack Obama, Enrique Peña Nieto and Justin Trudeau staged a bizarre three-way handshake in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, which ended up in memes all over the internet.
At that time this meeting was known colloquially like the “Three Friends Summit”But that ceased to be the case after Trump ended it a year later.
On this occasion, Washington will be the turning point of the event. Trudeau and López Obrador will meet for the first time. The Mexican president will also hold his first face-to-face meeting with President Biden. The two had a virtual reunion last March.
Thursday afternoon, the three leaders will meet first bilaterally and then trilaterally. And President López Obrador has announced that he will also meet with Vice President Kamala Harris, whom he previously received in Mexico City in June after Biden appointed her head of the US strategy to tackle the migration crisis.
What are the topics that will be on the table?
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