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Trump, Mexico's new president differ on key issues

WASHINGTON - Relations between President Donald Trump and the incoming president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, were always going to be complicated. The question is whether they will become toxic.

Trump's threats to close all or parts of the U.S.-Mexico border have antagonized the incoming administration in Mexico City, which takes office on Saturday, and members of Lopez Obrador's transition team have sent mixed signals about their own intentions, creating uncertainty in Washington and among investors.

The impasse in Tijuana, where several thousand mostly Central American migrants are stuck

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