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Ben Rhodes Previews President Obama's Trip to Mexico and Costa Rica

Summary: 
The Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications talks about some of the issues the President will be focusing on in his meetings.

On Thursday, President Obama leaves on a three day trip to Mexico and Costa Rica, where he will meet with key leaders to discuss a range of issues. In Mexico the President will meet with his counterpart, President Peña Nieto, on ways we can deepen our economic and commercial partnership.

In Costa Rica, President Chinchilla will host a meeting with President Obama and heads of state of the other Central American countries and the Dominican Republic, where the leaders can discuss our collective efforts to promote economic growth and development in Central America and our ongoing collaboration on citizen security.

We asked Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, to preview the upcoming trip and some of the issues the President would be discussing in his meetings. Check it out below or watch the video on YouTube

 


Learn more about President Obama's trip to Mexico and Costa Rica, and see the full schedule