Respira
By Amy L. Glover Drake
In recent weeks, I had the opportunity to take part in two parallel forums, one on the United States held in Mexico City and another on Mexico hosted in Houston, Texas. The common thread was the Baker Institute’s Center for the United States and Mexico at Rice University, one of the few think tanks dedicated to deepening understanding between two neighbors that are profoundly different, extraordinarily complex, and yet inextricably linked.
In Mexico, media coverage of U.S. politics and economics is often shallow and, now more than ever, overshadowed by a near-exclusive focus on the future of the U.S.–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA). Protecting the agreement as a trilateral pact with the adjustments that will inevitably come is, of course, a priority for Mexico and the region. But if we truly wish to safeguard it, we must broaden our perspective and better understand the political and economic forces shaping the United States, a country as vast as it is diverse.
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