Mexico's president pushes ahead with Trump trip – but is it worth the risk?
by Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent from on (#55EX4)
Critics say Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador risks humiliation when he meets his US counterpart to toast new free-trade deal
He presents himself as Mexico's low-budget president: a cost-cutting commander-in-chief who has taken the presidential jet out of service and drives a seven-year-old saloon car.
But when Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sets off - economy class - to Washington on Tuesday to meet Donald Trump many believe he will be making a high-stakes gamble, more characteristic of his casino-building host than Mexico's famously austere leader.
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