Mexico's incoming President has told US President Barack Obama that his number one
priority is reducing violence levels. The official version of the White House meeting,
skirted on sensitive key issues, with Enrique Peña Nieto saying that lessening the
violence throughout Mexico, is of paramount importance. He's planning to streamline
the Federal Police, create a new police force, but also try to integrate and dovetail
the whole security apparatus, which often operates like jealous fiefdoms. For
his part, President Obama mentioned the need for migration reform. Congress in the
United States has failed to grasp the political nettle time and again. But the situation
concerning millions of undocumented migrants has got to be practically resolved. Behind
closed doors, The Mexican team will have been voicing deep concern about marijuana
legalization in the states of Washington and Colorado, and urging Obama to do much
more to curb illegal gun running. It's been a timely get to know you, with both
sides determined to improve the bi-lateral relationship which has drifted, no matter
what diplomats say.