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...Neil says that even if Calderón initiatives like CELAC snub Washington, they "can actually be a good thing for the U.S." That's because they signal Mexico's renewed desire to do the heavy lifting in its main sphere of influence, Central America and the Caribbean, so that Washington - which suffered a diplomatic debacle last year when it tried to mediate the Honduras crisis - won't have...
Mexico first needs to relocate its diplomatic mojo. In the 20th century it was known for being the interlocutor between the U.S. and Cuba and for heading the Contadora group of Latin nations that helped broker peace during the Central American civil wars of the 1980s. Many point to former Mexican President Vicente Fox's 2002 falling-out with Cuba as a cause of Mexico's foreign policy retrenchment. But ironically, says O'Neil, a major factor has been democratization. When Mexico was under the dictatorial rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from 1929 to 2000, the government could...
...whose voter base resides in the country's more U.S.-friendly north. And then, perhaps most important, Mexico for the past decade has been waging an increasingly horrific war against its drug cartels, whose narcoinsurgency has afforded the government little time and energy to deal with coups in Central America or human-rights violations in Cuba...
Just behind Fontaine was Sheldon, who shot a 78 to tie for fifth, along with two members of Central Florida...
...Austin lands on that list too. The central Texas city of 760,000 has a few built-in advantages over other cities. The University of Texas and the state government - Austin is the capital - provide some economic stability. And as the Southwest's technology center, Austin is home to many high-growth (though high-risk) companies. It is also a music mecca and the gateway to Texas hill country, attributes that help it attract desirable workers. For all these reasons, it hasn't been battered quite as hard as other cities by the recession; the unemployment rate was nearly...