United States presidential visits to Mexico

Fourteen Presidents of the United States have made thirty-four presidential visits to Mexico. The first visit by an incumbent president to Mexico was made in 1909 by William Howard Taft. It was only the second time in U.S. history that a president left the country while in office.

Table of visits

President	Dates	Locations	Notes
William Howard Taft	October 16, 1909	Ciudad Juárez	Part of an exchange of visits with President Porfirio Díaz across the border.[1]
Franklin D. Roosevelt	April 20, 1943	Monterrey	Part of an exchange of visits with President Manuel Ávila Camacho across the border.[2]
Harry S. Truman	March 3–6, 1947	México, D. F.	State visit; met with President Miguel Alemán Valdés.[3]
Dwight D. Eisenhower	October 19, 1953	Nueva Ciudad Guerrero	Dedication of Falcon Dam, with President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines.[4][5]
	February 19–20, 1959	Acapulco	Informal meeting with President Adolfo López Mateos.[4]
	October 24, 1960	Ciudad Acuña	Informal visit; met with President López Mateos.[4]
John F. Kennedy	June 29 – July 1, 1962	México, D. F.	State visit; met with President López Mateos.[6]
Lyndon B. Johnson	April 14–15, 1966	México, D. F.	Informal visit; met with President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz.[7]
	December 3, 1966	Ciudad Acuña	Informal meeting with President Díaz Ordaz. Inspected construction of Amistad Dam.[7]
	October 28, 1967	Ciudad Juárez	Attended transfer of El Chamizal from the US. to Mexico and conferred with President Díaz Ordaz.[7]
Richard M. Nixon	September 8, 1969	Ciudad Acuña	Dedication of Amistad Dam with President Díaz Ordaz.[8]
	August 20–21, 1970	Puerto Vallarta	Official visit; met with President Díaz Ordaz.[8]
Gerald R. Ford	October 21, 1974	Nogales, Magdalena de Kino	Met with President Luis Echeverría and laid a wreath at the tomb of Padre Eusebio Kino.[9]
Jimmy Carter	February 14–16, 1979	México, D. F.	State visit; met with President José López Portillo and addressed the Mexican Congress.[10]
Ronald Reagan	January 5, 1981	Ciudad Juárez	Met with President López Portillo. (Visit made as President-elect.)[11]
	October 21–24, 1981	Cancún	Attended 22-nation[12] North–South Summit meeting on Cooperation and Development. Met with the Heads of state and government of Algeria, Bangladesh, Canada, China, France, Guyana, India, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia.[11]
	October 8, 1982	Tijuana	Exchange of visits with President-elect Miguel de la Madrid.[11]
	August 14, 1983	La Paz	Informal meeting with President de la Madrid.[11]
	January 3, 1986	Mexicali	Informal meeting with President de la Madrid.[11]
	February 13, 1988	Mazatlán	Informal meeting with President de la Madrid.[11]
George H. W. Bush	November 26–27, 1990	Monterrey, Agualeguas	State Visit; met with President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.[13]
Bill Clinton	May 5–7, 1997	México, D. F., Tlaxcala	State Visit; met with President Ernesto Zedillo.[14]
	February 14–15, 1999	Mérida	State Visit; met with President Zedillo.[14]
George W. Bush	February 16, 2001	San Cristóbal	Met with President Vincente Fox.[15][16]
	March 21–22, 2002	Monterrey	Attended the International Conference on Financing for Development and met with President Fox.[15]
	October 26–27, 2002	Los Cabos	Attended the 14th APEC Summit Meeting.[15]
	January 12–13, 2004	Monterrey	Attended the Special Summit of the Americas.[15]
	March 30–31, 2006	Cancun, Chichen-Itza	Attended the 2nd North American Leaders' Summit with President Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper; visited the Chichen-Itza archaeological site.[15]
	March 12–14, 2007	Mérida, Uxmal	Met with President Felipe Calderón; visited the Maya ruin complex of Uxmal.[15]
Barack Obama	April 16–17, 2009	Mexico City	Met with President Calderón.[17]
	August 9–10, 2009	Guadalajara	Attended the 5th North American Leaders' Summit with President Calderón and Prime Minister Harper.[17]
	June 17–19, 2012	Los Cabos	Attended the G-20 Summit meeting.[17]
	May 2–3, 2013	Mexico City	Met with President Enrique Peña Nieto.[17]
	February 19, 2014	Toluca	Attended the 9th North American Leaders' Summit with President Peña and Prime Minister Harper.[18]

See also

• Mexico–United States relations
• Foreign policy of the United States
• Foreign relations of the United States

References

1. "Travels of President William Howard Taft". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
2. "Travels of President Franklin D. Roosevelt". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
3. "Travels of President Harry S. Truman". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
4. "Travels of President Dwight D. Eisenhower". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
5. International Boundary and Water Commission; Falcon Dam
6. "Travels of President John F. Kennedy". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
7. "Travels of President Lyndon B. Johnson". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
8. "Travels of President Richard M. Nixon". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
9. "Travels of President Gerald R. Ford". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
10. "Travels of President Jimmy Carter". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
11. "Travels of President Ronald Reagan". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
12. Ronald E. Muller and Arthur L. Domike (October 18, 1981). "Cancun's Meaning". The New York Times.
13. "Travels of President George H. W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
14. "Travels of President William J. Clinton". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
15. "Travels of President George W. Bush". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
16. "The President's News Conference With President Vicente Fox of Mexico in San Cristobal, Mexico". The American Presidency Project. University of California, Santa Barbara. February 16, 2001. Retrieved April 7, 2016.
17. "Travels of President Barack Obama". U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian.
18. "North American Leaders News Conference". c-span.org. C-SPAN. February 19, 2014.