“I hope to maintain a good relationship with the government of the United States and to convince them that the problem of migration will not be resolved building walls, nor with the use of force,” Lopez Obrador, then president-elect, said in September in the northern border state of Sonora. “We are not going to fight with the government of the United States, and we are not going to fight with President Donald Trump.”

Source: Los Angeles Times December 13, 2018 21:56 UTC