Mexico to stress economic agenda with US

Mexico is ending the widespread access it gave to security agencies in the United States in the name of fighting drug trafficking and organized crime as the country's new government seeks to change its focus from violence to its emerging economy.

The change was confirmed by Mexico's Foreign Ministry on Monday as the government lays out a broad bilateral agenda in advance of Thursday's visit by US President Barack Obama.

All contact for US law enforcement will now go through "a single door", the federal Interior Ministry, which is the agency that controls security and domestic policy, said Sergio Alcocer, deputy foreign secretary for North American affairs.