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Mexico's Amlo calls on US to negotiate Nafta free trade deal
Mexico's President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, right, and his future Foreign Minister, Marcelo Ebrard, speaks to the press outside his party's headquarters in Mexico City yesterday

MEXICAN President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has issued an open letter to US President Donald Trump, calling for urgent negotiations on the Nafta free trade deal.

His letter was delivered on Sunday to Washington with senior Mexican officials who were meeting their US counterparts.

The left-leaning president-elect, known as Amlo, won the July 1 presidential election in a landslide but doesn’t take office until December 1.

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