MEXICO CITY — When U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr met with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday, it marked the highest-level discussion of a matter of bitter disagreement between the two countries: Should drug cartels be designated as terrorist organizations?
Barr arrived here just over a week after President Trump said in an interview that
he is pushing for that designation, a premise that Mexico’s government immediately rejected as “interventionism.”