You Won’t Like Mexico When It’s Angry

09/11/2017 Politico

President Trump’s insults are pushing the Mexican political system into dangerous territory.

In his landmark 1985 book, Distant Neighbors, Alan Riding, then the New York Times’ Mexico City correspondent, wrote that the Mexican president, in the days of the one-party state, was all powerful except for two things he could never do: 1) reelect himself (there’s a constitutional one-term limit for Mexican presidents) and 2) bring Mexico closer to the United States.

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One thought on “You Won’t Like Mexico When It’s Angry

  1. Excellent article. Right on target as to where Mexican politicians will be forced to go to prove they will not be humiliated by the US. Peña Nieto is already seen as having humiliated himself and the country in response to Trump.

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