President Obama is in Mexico today for the so-called Tres Amigos summit with Canada and Mexico. The three North American leaders are expected to announce an easing of border controls for corporate executives and to promote the neoliberal reforms of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, who recently opened the country’s oil sector to foreign companies. This week hundreds of Mexican teachers marched on the highway toward the summit site in Toluca to protest Peña Nieto’s education reforms. The meeting comes as President Obama faces pressure from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would carry Canadian tar sands oil to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The pipeline has faced mass protests in the United States from Native Americans and environmentalists who say it would fuel climate change and threaten communities. Another likely focus of today’s summit is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive deal among Pacific Rim countries to establish a free-trade zone encompassing nearly 40 percent of the global economy. Critics say the TPP would further entrench the failures of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect 20 years ago and caused mass displacement in Mexico.