President Obama is in Mexico today for meetings with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts. There's a lot on the agenda and The Takeaway has got a range of voices weighing in on NAFTA, border security and the swine flu. Bret Caldwell is a Director of Communications with the Teamsters Union, Ioan Grillo is a reporter in Mexico City with Time Magazine, and Diana Washington-Valdez is a reporter with the El Paso Times who focuses on US and Mexico border security.

Watch Mexico's President Felipe Calderón welcoming President Obama to Mexico (in Spanish and English)

The New York Yankees brought out the broomsticks this past weekend, sweeping the Boston Red Sox in four games. Friday brought a 15-inning classic that went into the wee hours of Saturday morning and the Yankees Alex Rodriguez played the hero hitting a game winning bomb. Joining The Takeaway to talk about this series and other news in sports is The Takeaway's Sports Contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin.

For more from Ibrahim, check out his blog post The Roar of the Crowd.

Two strange bedfellows will face a judge in federal court today: Bank of America and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Takeaway talks to Louise Story, finance reporter for The New York Times.

For this Monday's agenda segment, we talk about the news for the week ahead including NAFTA, health care, Pakistan and Secretary of State Clinton's visit to Africa. Joining The Takeaway for this agenda segment is The Nation Magazine’s Washington Editor Chris Hayes, and the BBC Asia Editor Jill McGivering.

Smokey Bear turned 65 on Sunday. He represents the longest running public service campaign in U.S. history, and it's still going strong. Joining The Takeaway is Helene Cleveland, fire prevention program manager for the U.S. Forest Service, to talk about Smokey's impact on preventing wildfires.

14.5 million Americans are out of work due to the worst recession since the Great Depression. All age groups are feeling the pain of the recession, but for 44-55 year olds, it's even harder. Beth Kobliner, Takeaway work-life Contributor and author of the bestseller, "Get a Financial Life" talks to us, along with Susan Price, who is 49, unemployed and looking for work.

Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was reportedly killed by a U.S. missile strike on Wednesday, but some members of the Pakistani Taliban are insisting that their leader is still alive. Nicholas Schmidle, of New America Foundation, and Christine Fair with the RAND Corporation sift through the conflicting information.

Maybe the best place to see how the Taliban are responding to the reported death of their leader in Pakistan, and the August 20 elections in Afghanistan is the Internet. Joining The Takeaway for a close reading of the Taliban's website is Shir Aqa Karimi, senior reporter for the BBC Pashtu Service.

On Friday the Department of Labor announced fewer job losses for the month of July since the current economic crisis hit bottom last Fall. Even the credit markets seem to be thawing out and returning to more normal levels. Joining The Takeaway is Louise Story, finance reporter for The New York Times.

The Sunshine State is buzzing over Republican Florida Senator Mel Martinez's sudden resignation. Governor Charlie Crist, the Republican front-runner for this Senate seat in 2010, must pick a replacement who won't challenge him, and won't hurt him in a contested GOP primary. Joining The Takeaway to talk about this is Joshua Johnson of WLRN-Miami Herald News, and Al Cardenas, former chair of the Republican Party of Florida. He's also a good friend of Senator Mel Martinez.

Many people turned up empty-handed when they tried to turn in their clunkers this weekend. Car lots across the country are actually running out of vehicles to sell. Joining The Takeaway to talk about the government-funded Cash for Clunkers program is John McEleney, a Chrysler dealer from Iowa and the chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association.

Joseph Conrad wrote in 1902 that the conquest of Africa was not a pretty thing. Now we see history repeating itself and this time it's China, Russia and the U.S. vying for Africa's resources. We talk to Thomas Pakenham, author of “The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876-1912.”

Inmates staged a violent riot at a California state men's prison in Chino, near Los Angeles Saturday night. By the end of the 11-hour incident a dormitory was burned to the ground, 250 prisoners were injured and 55 were hospitalized. Racial tensions between black and Latino inmates appeared to have played a role in the incident and California prisons are now on lock down across the state. Solomon Moore is covering the story for The New York Times.