In first, Mexican president meets Venezuelan opposition activist

Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto received a leading Venezuelan opposition activist for the first time, in a policy shift that reflects Mexico's increasing assertiveness against the government of Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro. Pena Nieto's meeting with Lilian Tintori, wife of jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, in the Mexican capital follows statements by the Mexican government demanding that democracy be "re-established" in Venezuela, where elections have been postponed. "We trust that, via an agreement between all sides, it will be the Venezuelans who re-establish the democratic order," Pena Nieto said via Twitter late on Thursday after the meeting. More…