Former U.S President Bill Clinton was in Mexico Friday to meet with Mexico's president Enrique Peña Nieto at the summit for Youth and Productivity in Mexico City, Efe reports via Univision.

The Laureate International Universities organized the summit, where Clinton is an honorary chancellor of the universities.

Clinton spoke with Nieto and apologized for the U.S.'s responsibility in Mexico's drug trafficking. He said the way the U.S. tried to prevent drug trafficking did not work.

The U.S. tried to stop drug smuggling by monitoring the sea and the air when they should have been monitoring and trying to prevent drug trafficking by land.

"You have all you need. I wish you had no drug trafficking, but it is not your responsibility. We targeted drug transportation by air and sea and then it all ended up by land and I apologize for that," Clinton said.

Clinton stated even though Mexico has problems, he urged them to think of the positives and the assets the country has.

Mexico recently dealt with 43 students who went missing. The country has concluded that these students were kidnapped by drug cartel members and then killed, but the bodies have yet to be found.

Mexico criticized the U.S. for not helping out enough with the "war on drugs" occurring in the country.

"I think the U.S. has been very tepid, publicly, in raising its concerns," Maureen Meyer, senior associate for Mexico and Migrant Rights at the Washington Office on Latin America, told the Guardian.

The U.S. insists they are helping with human rights issues in Mexico and trying to prevent situations like the 43 presumed to be dead students. Officials from the U.S. plan to discuss human rights issues on Tuesday.

When officials from the U.S. speak to Mexico, they plan to work with Mexico to improve law enforcement and judicial institutions.

The U.S. FBI is helping with Mexico's investigation on the missing students.

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