Mexico's top diplomat talks security, migration with new US counterpart


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  • Wednesday, 22 Jan 2025

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente looks on during a Senate's foreign relations committee meeting, in Mexico City, Mexico October 8, 2024. REUTERS/Luis Cortes/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente spoke with the new U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about security and migration issues in a first official contact between the two diplomats, Mexico's president told reporters on Wednesday.

The "very cordial" phone conversation took place on Tuesday, and marked Rubio's first call with a foreign minister, President Claudia Sheinbaum added, following his confirmation to the post in Washington earlier in the day.

The Cuban-American Rubio, the first Latino to serve in the senior role, is a fluent Spanish speaker.

(Reporting by Raul Cortes Fernandez; Editing by David Alire Garcia)

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