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A12 WORLD NEWS
Thursday 6 december 2018

Mexico’s new leader says relations with Trump good

Associated Press about this issue in particu-
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mex- lar, the immigration issue,”
ico’s leftist new president he said.
said Wednesday that re- Mexico’s Foreign Relations
lations with U.S. President Secretary Marcelo Ebrard
Donald Trump are “good,” has been in Washington for
and the two will probably talks on the issue.
talk soon about the immi- But Lopez Obrador side-
gration issue. stepped questions about
Many analysts had been whether Mexico will agree
expecting President Andres to house migrants while
Manuel Lopez Obrador their asylum claims are pro-
to run into headlong con- cessed in the United State,
flict with Trump, especially as U.S. officials have report-
since a caravan of about edly proposed.
7,000 Central American Still in his first week in of-
migrants set up camp on fice, Lopez Obrador also
the U.S. border last month. said he is weighing what
The caravan’s presence, steps to take in regard to
and an attempt to cross his extremely loose person-
the border en masse, led al security arrangements,
Trump to threaten to close which have been widely
the border. criticized.
But Lopez Obrador said he Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves as he arrives for the swearing-in “We are looking at this is-
is hopeful the two sides can ceremony for Mayor-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, in Mexico City, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. sue,” the president said,
Associated Press
agree on development aid “My friends, family, civic
for Central America and to emigrate. munication is good,” Lopez “It is very likely that in com- activists, you (the press) are
southern Mexico to create “We are in constant com- Obrador said Wednesday ing days we will talk with constantly bringing it to my
jobs so people won’t have munication, and the com- “Relations are good.” President Donald Trump attention.”q

Cuba to begin full internet access for mobile phones

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ HAVANA (AP) — Cuba an- that its citizens will be of- people have had access ing from 600 megabytes for
Associated Press nounced Tuesday night fered full internet access for to it for several years. about $7 to four gigabytes
mobile phones beginning The communist-governed for about $30.
this week, becoming one island has one of the world’s Those prices are roughly in
of the last nations to offer lowest rates of internet use line with global standards
such service. but that has been expand- but still out of reach for
Mayra Arevich, president ing rapidly since Presidents many Cubans who subsist
of the Cuban state tele- Barack Obama and Raul on state salaries of about
com monopoly ETECSA, Castro declared detente $30 a month.
went on national television in 2014. Expansion has not Cuba ran a fiber-optic
to say Cubans can begin slowed with President Don- connection to Venezuela
contracting 3G service for ald Trump’s partial rollback in 2012, allowing the island
the first time Thursday. of relations. to shift from slow and costly
Until now, Cubans have Cuba authorized home in- satellite links. It then began
had access only to state- ternet in 2017 and hundreds the slow process of allow-
run email accounts on their of public Wi-Fi connection ing citizens to get online.
phones.The Cuban govern- points have opened in The government opened
ment has been building a parks and plazas around state-run internet cafes in
3G network in cities across the country. 2013, joined by Wi-Fi sites
In this July 1, 2015 file photo, youths use a password protected the island and some tour- The new service will cost two years later. The number
wifi network coming from a five star hotel to surf the Internet on
their smart phones in downtown Havana, Cuba. ists, Cuban government of- about 10 cents per mega- of sites has grown to more
Associated Press ficials and foreign business- byte, with packages rang- than 800.q