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    Analysis: Biden administration's complicated relationship with Mexico 'is not working, but it is not kaput'

    MEXICO CITY — The Biden administration has been dedicating a significant amount of time to its prickly ally and neighbor to the south, Mexico. High-level meetings have taken place in both countries over the last two weeks, with the two sides speaking of their determination to cooperate on vexing issues including migration and cross-border smuggling of fentanyl and weapons. But even as ...
    by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Oct 09, 2023 5 minutes
    Mexico's Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena speaks next to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a U.S.- Mexico high-level security dialogue at the National Palace in Mexico City on Oct. 5, 2023.

    MEXICO CITY — The Biden administration has been dedicating a significant amount of time to its prickly ally and neighbor to the south, Mexico.

    High-level meetings have taken place in both countries over the last two weeks, with the two sides speaking of their determination to cooperate on vexing issues including migration and cross-border smuggling of fentanyl and weapons.

    But even as America's top diplomat, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, extolled what he judged to be the countries' "closest cooperation" in decades, Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was excoriating the U.S. for its foreign policy.

    Late last month, as Mexico's Foreign Secretary Alicia Bárcena met with Blinken in Washington ahead of his arrival in Mexico City last week for more talks, López Obrador condemned the U.S. for

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