Jared Kushner to receive Mexico’s highest honour for role in USMCA negotiations

The Mexican government says it will award President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law Jared Kushner the highest honour the country gives to foreigners, the Order of the Aztec Eagle.

The Foreign Relations Department said Kushner earned the award “for his significant contributions in achieving the renegotiation of the new (trade) agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada.”

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The department said in a statement Tuesday that Kushner “played a fundamental role during the whole process, displaying decisive support for the trade talks … thus achieving satisfactory results.”

Once known as the North American Free Trade Agreement, the pact was renegotiated this year and is now called the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.

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Mexico has previously given the award to foreign leaders, dignitaries, cultural figures and philanthropists ranging from Walt Disney to Bill Gates.