President Barack Obama: Mexico

Obama Dept: WASHINGTON - The explosion of drug-fueled violence along Mexico's border with the United States could harm relations between the two nations, President Barack Obama said Monday; Mexico's leader retorted that much of the problem of drugs and guns begins on the U.S. side of the line, according to Winnipeg Free Press. "It can have a deteriorating effect overall on the nature of our relationship," Obama said. "And that's something that we have to pay attention to." FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2011, file photo, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, talks with U.S. President Barack Obama following the first plenary session of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Kapolei, Hawaii. Obama is convening a summit with leaders from Mexico and Canada on Monday, April 2, 2012, that aims to boost a fragile recovery and grapple with thorny energy issues against a backdrop of painfully high gas prices. The session at the White House is a make-good for a planned meeting last November in Hawaii on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific summit. Obama ended up meeting just with Harper when Mexican President Felipe Calderon's top deputy was killed in a helicopter crash. AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File In the thick of political contests in both the United States and Mexico, Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon traded unusually direct claims about the cause and effect of the drug violence that has consumed a swath of northeastern Mexico. They were cordial and complimentary to one another, but did not hide the degree of worry on both sides about a six-year spasm of violence that had killed more than 47,000 people. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.