Marco Rubio next week will pay his first visit to Mexico as the top US diplomat, as President Donald Trump presses for cooperation against migration and cartels, the State Department said Thursday.

The US secretary of state will also travel to Ecuador to see US-friendly President Daniel Noboa and encourage the South American country to distance itself from China, a US official said.

Rubio on both stops will seek “swift and decisive action to dismantle cartels, halt fentanyl trafficking, end illegal immigration” and counter “malign extracontinental actors,” State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said.

It will be the third visit to Latin America in seven months in office by Rubio, the first Latino secretary of state and an ardent foe of the region’s leftists.

But Rubio, who doubles as T

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