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Then things turned in the 1990s. mexico went through a series of economic crises in the 80s and 90s and desperately needed help. it began opening up its economy and political system. american firms were doing more business in mexico and wanted a stable trading partner. washington began to recognize that the best solution to all the problems across the border, immigration, drugs, violence was a prosperous democratic mexico. mexicos old anti-americanism fadeed faded into oblivion. they worked on e...

U.s. government. he himself is mexicos response to trump. in 2016 he was polling around 25%. as trump took office and continued his mexico bashing, he labelled him a neo-fascist and published a book titled "listen trump." then last july he won with a staggering 53% of the presidential vote. so mexico now has a radical socialist at its helm and in no small measure thanks to the nasty rhetoric of donald trump. but even as mexicos president he has to make nice with washington. the country, however,...

And read my "washington post" column this week. lets get started. lets keep talking about mexico and its relationship to america under donald trump. i want to bring in two experts on that relationship, jorge g. castaneda, was mexicos foreign minister from 20002003. hes a professor at nyu and joins us from new york city city. shannon koneil is at the council on foreign relations. shannon, let me ask you, it does appear that donald trump blinked in the sense that the deal that he announced, that...

Us again. we are back to where we were before nafta. he point out that mexico could stop cooperating on a host issues that affect americans. mexicans see the drug trade, for example, as one created by american demand, financed by american cash, and fought with american guns. and yet mexican police die every month trying to stop this trade. the mexican government has tried to stem migration to the u.s. from central america, and cooperates closely with the u.s. on this even though the level has be...

They will send 6,000 or so national guard down there to deal with central americans. mexico today is facing historic homicide rates, some of the worst violence in its history. so they have to pull resources away from that fight for trumps demands. >> jorge, this feels like a very different u.s.-mexican relationship than the one you presided over with another republican president, when george w. bush was inaugurated he made his first foreign trip to mexico, to the ranch, i think of foxs ranch. yo...

Every president since 1964 has met with their american counterpart. lopez hasnt and probably wont for some time. there were advantages to this because it allows the two leaders not to get into personal fights or squabbles and allows them to leave the ambiguity in this agreement which is very worrisome. i just mentioned three aspects. one, in a tweet this morning, early sunday morning, president trump says that there is another issue in the agreement which has not yet been mentioned and will be n...

Mexico. what shannon was saying about accepting many more central americans who request asylum in the u.s. and then wait in mexico, right now theres only about 10,000 of them. but 480,000 entered the united states over the first five months of this year. are they all going to come back? are they going to send them back to mexico to the border on our side? thats something mexico cannot manage. theres no way. >> shannon, what about the use of the threat of these tariffs? as i say its likely in con...

Third country treaty which the mexican government did not give. is it your sense that facing republican senate opposition, a lot of opposition from big business, donald trump realized that these tariffs were not going to work and essentially back down, of course, hes declaring victory? >> i think he set up a crisis so he could make a deal as he has across many foreign policy and domestic policy issues. so he had put on the table, his administration, this idea that mexico would be responsible for...

Of trade rules. he has undermined one of the most impressive american foreign policy achievements of the last three decades, the transformation of relations with mexico. for much of its modern history, mexico saw itself as a developing country that was oppressed by its high handed imperialist neighbor. from the mexican perspective, americas relations with it were characterized by exploitation and annexation. through war and intimidation the united states took roughly half of mexicos territory in...

So mexico offered at least promised more of the same to try to limit the flows that are coming north. >> jorge g. castaneda, do you think this affects americas image with mexico, the kind of, the bullying tactics, the threats, the intimidation? >> well, it does a little bit, but its also important to say that in many ways people in mexico are seeing this as the mexican government, the mexicans played donald trump. basically they promised to do what they had already promised to do, and probably w...