In June 2019, the United States threatened tariffs on Mexican goods. The day after the two governments reached an agreement, on June 8, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador held a rally in Tijuana. He called it an “Acto en defensa de la dignidad nacional y en favor de la amistad con EEUU” (Act in defense of national dignity and in favor of friendship with the US).
He spoke of the US president: “no le levanto un puño cerrado, sino la mano abierta y franca” (I do not raise a closed fist to him, but an open and frank hand). “Le reiteramos nuestra disposición a la amistad, al diálogo y la colaboración por el bien de nuestros pueblos” (We repeat our willingness for friendship, dialogue and collaboration for the good of our peoples).