Mexico City, Feb. 4 -- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday said she had reached an agreement with her U.S. counterpart Donald Trump to put a month-long "pause" on imposing a 25-percent tariff on Mexican imports and to immediately reinforce security along the 3,200-km U.S.-Mexico border to stem drug trafficking.
The two leaders reached a series of agreements during a telephone conversation Monday morning, Sheinbaum said on social platform X.
During the discussion, Trump pledged to stem the smuggling of high-powered weapons into Mexico, which the previous Mexican government had demanded to combat the rise in violence from scrime.
"We had a good conversation with President Trump with great respect for our relationship and sover...