Mexico president urges USMCA ratification, vowing to implement labor reform

Reuters

Published Oct 13, 2019 02:48PM ET

Mexico president urges USMCA ratification, vowing to implement labor reform

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's president said on Sunday he would send a letter to U.S. congressional Democrats vowing to implement a recent labor law, in a bid to assuage their concerns over worker rights and speed up ratification of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, speaking in a video posted on Twitter, called for the deal to be ratified as soon as possible and not be "contaminated" by the U.S. election cycle.