Castañeda: Valley ‘best proof’ of life on the border done right - Distinguished lector speaks against border fence, for improved relations between U.S.-Mexico

“History, economics, stubbornness and “lousy” policies are mucking up already complicated relations between the United States and Mexico, Jorge Castañeda said Wednesday. But it’s nothing new.

“The relationship between the two countries had never been devoid of frictions,” said Castañeda, a Latin American studies pro-fessor, author and former foreign affairs minister of Mexico.

Drugs and immigration are the central dilemmas facing the two nations that share an unarmed border but are not without strong conflicts. “*

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