The Post on Obama in Mexico

From the morning summary: 

In advance of the one-day visit, Obama administration officials have said the president will pledge to do more to stop the flow of U.S.-made firearms to the drug cartels fighting for control of smuggling routes along the border. Officials say he also wants to broaden the U.S. relationship with Mexico, long dominated by drugs and immigration, to include economic and environmental interests.

But Mexican analysts say Calderón, who is frustrated by delays in delivery of promised U.S. counternarcotics aid, will want more. Calderón, who two years ago became the first Mexican president to so fully deploy the army against the cartels, will seek from Obama an emphatic expression of confidence that the Mexican government will succeed against the cartels after a Defense Department report last year said Mexico was on its way to becoming a "failed state."

"Drugs will be at the top of the agenda. It will dominate the agenda, because the drug fight is all that Calderón talks about, all that he thinks about," said Jorge Castañeda, foreign secretary under Calderón's predecessor, Vicente Fox. "He wants to hear [Obama] say that Mexico was never a failed state, is not a failed state today and even in their deepest, darkest fears will never, ever be a failed state."