Fuera Trump.
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Donald Trump is wildly unpopular with Mexicans. But so, too, is President Enrique Peña Nieto, putting him in a tough position for this week’s high-level American official visit to Mexico.
El Chapo after his arrest in January 2016.
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Joaquin Guzmán is Mexico’s worst ‘bad hombre’, but his extradition to the US won’t stop the Sinaloa Cartel.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is greeted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Can Canada manage to keep up trade while also meeting US expectations for a safe border?
Jesus Blasco De Avellaneda/Reuters
What do border walls cost? And do they work?
A protestor burns a figure representing Trump outside the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell
Since World War II, the US and Mexico have successfully worked together on issues like trade and migration. If Trump refuses to treat Mexico as a partner, how bitter will the breakup be?
A wall to nowhere?
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President Trump signed an executive order to get construction started and ask Congress to pay up front, but good luck getting Mexico to foot the bill.
The wide gap between the two leaders was in full display back in August, when candidate Trump visited Mexico.
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A former ambassador to Mexico explains how Trump’s rhetoric is sparking a backlash that could endanger U.S. economic and national security.
One unpopular president goes up in the world at the expense of another.
EPA/Jorge Nunez
It takes a lot to make a president with a 12% approval rating a hero. Trump may yet manage it.
Sgt. 1st Class Gordon Hyde, http://www.ngb.army.mil
Filmmakers sympathetic to the plight of Mexican and Central American migrants are using their films to counter the fug of misinformation.
Foreign policy, now online.
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
US foreign relations have gone online. And the results are not looking good.
Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto’s meeting with Donald Trump during the campaign proved wildly unpopular with the Mexico people.
Henry Romero/Reuters
What’s cooler than standing up to a bully?
U.S. Border Patrol frisks a man near the U.S.-Mexico border in California.
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January 31, 2017
Susan Bibler Coutin , University of California, Irvine ; Jennifer Chacón , University of California, Irvine ; Sameer Ashar , University of California, Irvine , and Stephen Lee , University of California, Irvine
A team of legal scholars breaks down the factors that will determine which immigrants are most vulnerable for deportation under the new administration.
Presidential candidate Trump holds a sign at a rally.
REUTERS/Jonathan Drake
The logic behind building a wall is centuries old. But can concrete solve the complex problems the U.S. is facing today?
Donald Trump raises his fist after being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States
Carlos Barria/Reuters
The world is on edge as Donald Trump enters the White House.
People protesting hikes in Mexican fuel prices block access to a Pemex gas station.
Edgard Garrido/Reuters
Is this the beginning of a ‘Mexican Spring’?
President Enrique Peña Nieto’s invitation for Donald Trump to visit Mexico in August 2016 offended 74% of Mexicans, according to polls.
Reuters
Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-NAFTA rhetoric has targeted Mexico and Mexicans.
About 200 convicted illegal immigrants serving their sentences before being deported, in Phoenix.
AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File
In his first year of office, Trump’s immigration policy will likely focus not on building an expensive wall, but rather on the work that earned Obama the nickname ‘Deporter in Chief.’
Residents take part in the Olympic Flame torch relay in Gravata, Pernambuco state, Brazil, May 31, 2016.
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Being Brazilian in the US means navigating an identity that doesn’t neatly fit into a single check-box, and can be perceived in vastly different ways depending on what part of the country you’re in.
Mexico has a lot of natural beauty to save – or squander.
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The government has decided to protect vast new expanses of land and sea. But bad planning and lax regulations are likely to limit, or even undermine, this conservation effort.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen discusses the change in rates.
Alex Brandon/AP Photo
The Fed faces a tough choice on how fast to raise rates in 2017, and Donald Trump may find that it may spoil some of his plans.