Mexico-US relationship faces the worst bilateral crisis in decades
The threat of tariffs by Donald Trump is the latest in a long list of confrontations, from the dramatic debt crisis of the 1980s to clashes over the Iraq war and previous trade battles
“So far from God, so close to the United States.” This phrase, uttered by the Mexican military leader and president Porfirio Díaz at the beginning of the 20th century, comes back with force every time there is a crisis between the two countries, something that has been common during more than two centuries of proximity. The U.S. and Mexico share one of the largest borders in the world, they have highly interconnected economies and a tangle of crossed interests, from the geopolitical to the cultural, that have caused a long list of clashes. All of them quite asymmetrical, with the powerful neighbor to the north almost always holding the best cards.
