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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 23
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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U.S. POLICY TOWARD MEXICO ADRIFT
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(*La Jornada*, 9/15/96)
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[Abbreviated translation by Conspiracy Nation]
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The Clinton administration seems at present to lack high-level
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personnel able to evaluate and define political responses to
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current challenges in Mexican relations.
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"Our question is, 'Who is in charge? Who is monitoring policy
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(toward Mexico) at the highest levels?'" said a frustrated member
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of the U.S. government interviewed by *La Jornada*. The answer,
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according to various bureaucrats and analysts consulted this
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week, is "no one."
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The foreign policy of the United States is frequently the result
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of a chaotic equilibrium amongst bureaucratic interests which
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only reach consensus at the highest levels at a time of sharp
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crisis, and whose dynamic is especially present during an
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election year.
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"What we question," commented a U.S. government official who
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requested anonymity, "is who is offering general leadership and
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asking the hard questions?"
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Another source added, "I simply don't believe that anyone is
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paying attention." Various legislators already have begun to ask
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the White House who is in charge of policy toward Mexico.
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The Wall Street Journal, in an article on the EPR [Ejercito
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Popular Revolucionario, Army of the Popular Revolution] at the
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beginning of September, commented that, "the United States is
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singularly ill-prepared to give to this latest crisis the
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attention it deserves."
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Robert Pastor, Director for Latin America at the Carter Center in
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Atlanta, pointed out that in an election year the focus of White
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House personnel gets distracted by politics.
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In fact, the only sustained focus regarding Mexico at the moment
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is the effort to assure that it, or any other of the themes
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connected to the bilateral relation, does not get converted into
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an election issue. With this in mind, the highest levels of U.S.
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government are working all-out to ensure that Mexico does not
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default on what it owes the U.S.
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The Wall Street Journal has pointed out that, "none of the
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high-level foreign policy team of the Clinton administration have
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focussed their attention on Mexico, while many of the senior
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experts on Latin America have recently left the State Department
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and the intelligence services."
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Therefore, according to some experts on bilateral relations, "no
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one is minding the store" regarding Mexico at this moment.
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Others limit themselves to hoping that nothing important, or
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worse, difficult for the Clinton campaign, will occur in Mexico
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until after November 5th.
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