Geopolitics makes for strange bedfellows indeed. After President Barack Obama’s performance at last weekend’s Summit of the Americas (and before that, on a quick visit to Mexico City) nearly everyone in Latin America and the United States was applauding t
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The Danger Across the Border
From the magazine issue dated Feb 2, 2009
Over the past several weeks Mexicans have become obsessed with what they believe is an American obsession that Mexico has become or could be on the way to becoming a “failed state.” It began with a highly critical
Latin America’s Deafening Silence
To the myriad foreign challenges Barack Obama will have to confront upon taking office we may have to add a complex conundrum next door in Latin America. On three fronts that have posed serious problems for the United States before, there is a growing and
Jorge Castañeda en la BBC
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How the presidential elections may affect the relationship between the United States and Latin America
Former Mexican foreign minister Jorge Castaneda talks to Katty Kay about how the presidential elections may affect the relationship between the United States and Latin America.
Immigration’s lost voices
THE COLLAPSE of the bipartisan immigration deal in the Senate last week sends a terrible message. As flawed as some considered the bill to be, it was certainly an improvement over the status quo for some very interested parties: the roughly 12 million una
The Forgotten Relationship
Free from the strategic and ideological rigidities of the Cold War, Latin America in the mid-1990s looked forward to a more realistic and constructive relationship with the United States. The first Summit of the Americas in 1994, which launched negotiatio
.:: The mexican shock ::.
In the Mexican Shock Castañeda examines the major issues in Mexico in recent years and their effects on the United States.: emigration, the relationship between politics and economics, the assassination of presidential candidate Luis Colosio, and the rapi
.:: Ex Mex::.
In Ex Mex, former Mexican foreign minister and well-known scholar Jorge G. Castañeda draws on his experience in both capacities to dispel some of the most widely held and mistaken ideas about the United States’ largest, most controversial immigrant popula
A ‘Cinnamon-Skinned’ President
The news about Hillary Clinton’s collapse in the U.S. Democratic Party primaries was premature, to put it mildly. And Barack Obama’s apparent coronation will also have to wait a while, a few weeks or even a few years. But the Illinois senator’s impressive