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The First Lady of the United States offered a candle and some flowers to Our Mother the Virgin of Guadalupe during her visit to the Basilica of Guadalupe. pic.twitter.com/Ziju3Bcwza

— Basilica of Guadalupe (@INBGuadalupe) January 9, 2023

The Basilica of Santa María de Guadalupe reported this Sunday on its Twitter account that the First Lady of the United States offered a candle and some flowers to Our Mother the Virgin of Guadalupe during her visit to the basilica.

Natalia Cano tells of the plans of the presidents Joe Biden, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Justin Trudeau in the following days during the North American Leaders Summit that will take place from January 9 to 11 in the Historic Center of Mexico City.

US President Joe Biden (left) is greeted by his Mexican counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador upon landing at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport in Zumpango de Ocampo, north of Mexico City, on January 8. 2023. (Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ/AFP via Getty Images)

The President of the United States, Joe Biden, arrived this Sunday afternoon at the Felipe Ángeles International Airport in Mexico, where he was received by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

During the reception, both heads of state were accompanied by the Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon; the Mexican ambassador to the United States, Esteban Moctezuma Barragán; the Director General of Protocol, Martha Susana Peón Sánchez, and the United States Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, according to an official statement from the Mexican government.

This Monday the X Summit of North American Leaders begins in Mexico City. The meeting will bring together the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, his US counterpart, Joe Biden, and the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau. Migration, climate change and the region’s competitiveness will be some of the main issues to be discussed.

President Joe Biden greets Border Patrol agents at a stretch of the US-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Ahead of the North American leaders’ summit, US President Joe Biden visited the US-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time as president, but did not appear to see or meet with migrants, including during a trip to a rest center for migrants.

Biden spent several hours in El Paso on his first visit to the southern border as president, following mounting protests and criticism that he had yet to see firsthand the crisis created by the record number of migrants heading to the border. But that brief visit seemed largely focused on compliance issues and talking to border control personnel. Reporters on the ground did not see any migrants at the rest center during the president’s visit there, nor along the caravan routes throughout the afternoon.

The foreign minister of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard, announced the agenda that the North American leaders will hold at the Summit to be held at the National Palace in Mexico City between January 9 and 11.