Mexican president to speak at Harvard

(AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)

President Felipe Calderón of Mexico, shown above in Guadalajara on Sunday, will speak tonight at the Kennedy School of Government.

By Globe Staff

President Felipe Calderón of Mexico is expected to a deliver a speech tonight at Harvard University in which he will outline the challenges faced by his country.

The speech at the Kennedy School of Government is part of a four-state US tour that will also take him to New York, Chicago, and California. Calderón's visit has been billed as an effort to meet Mexican immigrants in this country, according to a story published today in the Dallas Morning News.

Calderón is from the central state of Michoacán, home to a large number of US immigrants. While standing next to President Bush in Mérida last year, Calderón acknowledged that he had relatives working illegally in the United States, according to the Dallas Morning News report.

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