{"id":24078,"date":"2018-03-07T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T12:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=24078"},"modified":"2018-03-07T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T12:12:56","slug":"jared-kushner-to-visit-mexico-amid-strained-us-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/jared-kushner-to-visit-mexico-amid-strained-us-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Kushner to visit Mexico amid strained US ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico City,<br \/>\nUS President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner will visit Mexico on Wednesday, the Mexican government said, against a backdrop of strained ties between the two neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign ministry said Kushner would visit as Trump\u2019s \u201cspecial envoy\u201d and meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto, who reportedly cancelled plans for a visit to Washington after a testy phone call last month with Trump &#8211; the second time he has scrapped a visit over Trump\u2019s insistence that Mexico pay for his planned border wall.<\/p>\n<p>US-Mexican relations have also been strained over trade issues, including Trump\u2019s insistence on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to get a \u201cbetter deal\u201d for the US and his vow to include Mexico and Canada in steep tariffs on steel and aluminium.<\/p>\n<p>Kushner will also meet with Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, the ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring these meetings, the two sides will review various issues on the bilateral agenda,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Kushner, the 37-year-old husband of Trump\u2019s daughter Ivanka, recently lost his top-level security clearance, raising questions about his role as one of the president\u2019s closest advisors.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post reported that at least four foreign governments, including Mexico, had sought to leverage his business and political vulnerabilities to their own ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico City, US President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law and senior advisor Jared Kushner will visit Mexico on Wednesday, the Mexican government said, against a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24080,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078\/revisions\/24080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}