Dangers of America’s Mexico-bashing From: seattlepi.nwsource.com

A century ago Porfirio Diaz, a Mexican dictator, lamented the fact that his country was “so far from God and so close to the United States.”

The difference today is that Mexico has swallowed its doubts and bound itself to the Great Satan through the North American Free-Trade Agreement. And having become a democracy, too, Mexico’s close partnership with the United States is nowadays based on common values as well as common interests.

Or so it thought. Over the past couple of years Mexicans have had to watch as their country has been the victim of some decidedly unfriendly treatment from its neighbor. This began when the American Congress, largely at Republican urging, squashed attempts to regulate migration, opting instead to build a fence along stretches of the Mexican border.”*

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