The US and Mexico Need Couples Therapy
The 60 Minutes segment dedicated to Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador last weekend started with a bang: Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi, who flew to Mexico City to interview the president known as AMLO, calls him “the person who could tip the scales” in the US general election.
Wow. The US-Mexico relationship has been asymmetrical for ages, with Washington typically getting what it wanted from its neighbor. To say that Mexico’s 70-year-old nationalist leader could determine the next president of the most powerful country on Earth is quite something. But there is some truth to Alfonsi’s point: migration, the state of the US border and the fentanyl crisis — together with the economy — top US voters’ worries. Mexico looms large in all these areas; in a too-close-to-call scenario, its actions in any one of them could be decisive in November.