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Time for a reset in U.S.-Mexican relations

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JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA.- Mexican President Felipe Calderón will make his first full-fledged visit to Washington this week since taking office 3 1/2 years ago. Given the issues facing their countries, Calderón and President Obama might be tempted to nickel-and-dime their encounter.

Jabbing the U.S. and leading with his left

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Evo morales, Bolivia's new president, is not Latin America's first chief executive of indigenous origins. That was Benito Juárez of Mexico during the second half of the 19th century. And Bolivia is not "Latin" America: It and Guatemala are the only nations in the hemisphere where indigenous peoples are in the majority. Nonetheless, the importance of Morales' electoral victory should not be underestimated, both because of its symbolic importance and because of its implications for the rest of t...

An Answer for Hugo Chávez

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MEXICO CITY -- Each stop on President Bush's upcoming swing through Latin America has its own mini-agenda: ethanol and the Doha round with Brazil; a Trade Framework Agreement in Uruguay; Plan Colombia and drug enforcement in Bogotá; immigration and security with Mexico and Guatemala. But there is an overall agenda for which this trip may well represent too little, too late: Chávez containment.

After Mexico's Election

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Close elections are no big deal; they happen nearly everywhere and very often. If the close July 2 vote in Mexico, my country, seems surprising and confusing, it's simply because there have been very few real elections, close or otherwise. Most scholars would agree that in the country's entire history, at most four presidential votes would qualify by international standards: those of 1911 and 1994 (sort of), Vicente Fox's in 2000 and now Felipe Calderón's.

Mending Fences South of the Border

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At the inauguration tomorrow of Evo Morales as Bolivia's new president, the United States -- which has a significant military and aid presence in that country -- will be represented by a deputy assistant secretary of state. This is just further evidence -- if any was needed -- that U.S. relations with Latin America are in utter disrepair. Rarely over the past half-century has the chasm in perceptions been so wide, the resentments and mistrust so deep. True, there was Cuba in the 1960s, but most ...

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