USMexican Relations I

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US-Mexican Relations I

• For better of for worse, Mexico and the United
  States are wedded to each other (1).

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Domínguez and Fernández

• Key thesis of the text is that the US and Mexico
  have become, and will continue to be, more
  important to one another. The late 1980s and the
  early 1990s were a period of profound change in
  the relationship of the two countries.

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Context

• The Long-term US-Mexican Relationship
• The Lost Decade of the 1980s
• US Neoliberalism in the post-Cold War Era

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The Long-term US-Mexican Relationship

• Texas in 1836 (annexed by US in 1845)
• 1846 Mexican-American War
• 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
• US intervention in the 1910s
• WWI offer from the Germans.
• WWII
• 1940-1988 bargained negligence
• Bilateral
• little effort in improving or institutionalizing
  these dealings

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Basic Facts

• 2000 Census estimated 9 million persons of
  Mexican birth in the US, 7 million were not
  citizens.
• Source http//www.census.gov/population/cen2000
  /stp-159/STP-159-Mexico.pdf
• There were an estimated 6.2 million unauthorized
  Mexican migrants in 2005, or 56 of the
  unauthorized population.
• Source http//pewhispanic.org/files/reports/61.
  pdf

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Policy Options

• Conflict
• Cooperation
• Bargained neglect

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Mexicos POV

• Nationalism
• Isolationism
• autarchy
• Wanting to avoid dependence
• Focus on the unfortunate fact of having a
  superpower as a neighbor, without recognizing the
  potential inherent in that situation.
• poor Mexico so far from God and so close to the
  United States (Díaz on 11).
• Castañeda I cannot believe any signs of good
  intentions, sympathy, or moral considerations on
  the part of the United States that could make
  them change their basic attitude towards Mexico
  (11).