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That was the inauspicious start to a three-day trip on which Carter was trying to extend a friendlier hand across the border. His aides were angered at the Mexican President's attack. Scoffed one: "A certain amount of that is, I suppose, permissible for home consumption." Indeed, LÓpez Portillo's outspokenness won wide praise in Mexico City. Declared the morning newspaper Novedades: "The President expressed the feelings of all Mexicans in a very accurate way." Out in the streets, several thousand leftist demonstrators shouted anti-Carter slogans and burned Uncle Sam in effigy...
...leaders had many serious issues to discuss−from oil prices to migrant labor and drug smuggling−and before one session of the talks formally began, Carter asked for ten minutes alone with LÓpez Portillo. The President candidly told his host that it was "counterproductive if we overemphasized our differences, particularly our historical differences, as opposed to our commitment to efforts to resolve them...
...colonial Palacio Nacional, but it was just general and polite. The two Presidents got down to specifics the next day at Los Pinos, Lopez Portillo's official residence. Carter said he was ready to reopen negotiations over natural gas purchases in formal government-to-government bargaining sessions. Said LÓpez Portillo: "Let's get on with it." As for buying more oil from Mexico, Carter did not press for a speedup of production, but did express U.S. willingness to increase its purchases whenever Mexico could deliver. "We got past all the recriminations," said a White House aide...
...high level of poverty in Mexico, he added that the immigration conflict will be eased only when Mexico's standard of living improves. Meanwhile, he said frankly, he intends to enforce U.S. immigration laws "as fairly and humanely as I can." Replying to a complaint from LÓpez Portillo that Mexicans working in the U.S. often are mistreated, Carter promised to "protect the basic human rights of all people within the borders of my country...
Protocol demanded that at this reciprocal dinner, given by Carter, his guest would get the last word. LÓpez Portillo made the most of it: "You are very right. It is difficult for us to live next to the most powerful country in the world. It must be very difficult for you also to live next to a poor and developing country." There was worse to come. Declared LÓpez Portillo: "The most serious issue of our times is the fact that there are men who can buy men and that there are men who have to sell...