WASHINGTON, DC- Felipe Calderon, Mexico´s President, and U.S. President Barack Obama met for talks in the White House Thursday, March 3rd. The two heads of state praised their cooperation on issues of border security and commerce.

"We are very mindful that the battle President Calderon is fighting inside of Mexico is not just his battle, it’s also ours," Obama said. However, he said it was "a challenging task."

It is hard to remember a more important meeting between the president of Mexico and the United States.

U.S.-Mexico relations are at boiling point as both nations held an Obama-Calderón summit meeting in Washington that included conversations on controversial issues such as Mexico's drug war, diplomatic cable leaks, the influx of U.S. arms and a wave of anti-immigration initiatives in the United States.

They want to take steps to fight against those cartels in Mexico.

These issues are all taking a toll on the border nations relationship that had shown steady improvement in the recent years.

As President Felipe Calderón came for an official visit frustrations have come out into the open and the rhetoric in some ways has regressed to the 1980s, when the two governments routinely traded barbs about drugs, money laundering, trade and investment issues.

The visit comes a little more than two weeks after the killing of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata, who was shot to death on a highway in northern Mexico on February 15, with a gun that was smuggled in from the United States.

The killing brought back U.S. doubts about Mexico's ability to control violence, at the same time Mexico is beginning to chafe under what it sees as a lack of U.S. willingness to reduce its demand for drugs or stem the ...