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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. mexico's old anti-americanism fadeed faded into oblivion. they worked on everything from water management to immigration to drugs. the most radical and left wing president...

U.s. government. he himself is mexico's 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 mexico's president he has to make nice with washington. the country, however, feels freshly humiliated and reformers are in retreat. as a former senior mexican diplomat he wro...

And read my "washington post" column this week. let's get started. let's 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 mexico's foreign minister from 20002003. he's 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 was announced was largely stop mexico to months ago the one ask that the trump administration h...

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 become unmanageable for mexico and united states authorities. two peoples, mexicans and americans are ...

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 trump's 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 fox's ranch. you were there. it feels like this relationship which had been on an upward trajectory is in a very ...