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Article: Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico.
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- National Review
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- May 5, 1989
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Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico, by Robert A. Pastor and Jorge G. Castaneda (Knopf, 415 pp., $24.95)
EVERY NEWLY ELECTED U.S. President since Polk has announced after his inauguration that he intends to establish friendlier relations with Mexico. And in that effort every U.S. President has failed. Relations have varied slightly over time, but the range only extends from frosty to downright frigid. Even when the United States is rushing a multi-billion-dollar rescue package to snatch Mexico from the brink of financial collapse, as in 1982, Mexico remains, in Alan Riding's apt phrase, a "distant neighbor." And its rulers, as the authors ...