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Is energy Mexico's Achilles heel in Trump negotiations?

As US President Donald Trump’s trade negotiation tactics make their way back into the global headlines, no other Latin American country is paying more attention than Mexico, where the economy is joined at the hip with the US. 

Trump has called for stricter measures against migration, drug trafficking and backdoor Chinese imports in exchange for halting protectionist measures against Mexican products. However, the White House has another lever that has seldom been discussed in these negotiations, one that could be seen as Mexico’s Achilles' heel…

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