Mexico vows labor rights, higher wages to urge U.S. Democrats to back trade deal

Seeking to speed up U.S. ratification of a North American trade deal, Mexican Pr...

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador attends a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico August 30, 2019. Picture taken August 30, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

U.S. House of Representatives’ Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that in order to approve the pact, Democratic lawmakers need to have confidence in a labor reform passed this year by Lopez Obrador’s left-leaning government. “They want to know if the labor law will be implemented... of course we will comply with enforcing this law,” Lopez Obrador told his regular news conference.

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