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TIME.com: How is President Fox's Washington visit playing with the Mexican public...
...changes that Fox has made in the Mexican political culture, one of the major ones - as unusual as this may sound to Americans - has been to recognize and champion Mexicans living illegally in the U.S., not only as a vulnerable and exploited minority, but as part of the greater Mexican nation. Mexicans had for various reasons shied away from acknowledging this reality, but Fox's has brought it out into the open. Not only that, he is also proposing a major change in U.S. law, which is something else that Mexico has never done. It has always refrained from challenging...
...Mexican public won't be impressed simply by purely symbolic gestures. Despite the obviously warm relationship between the two presidents on show yesterday, one of Mexico's major dailies today lead with the headline "Hunt for Accords Begins Without Success." This is not an unsophisticated public...
...certainly in the U.S. interest to help Mexico, and Fox specifically, because a stronger Mexican economy expands opportunities for U.S. trade and investment, and also because people are less likely to emigrate if there are jobs at home. But the U.S. economic downturn has left Mexico facing a recession, and that has hampered both Fox's reform program and the ability of the U.S. to help...
...White House did inform the media early on that Tex Mex would not be served. And while that may been intended to assuage fears that President George W. Bush's southwestern tastes would come to dominate state functions, the truth is that serving fajitas (or perhaps some more esteemed Mexican entr?e) to a visiting Mexican leader would not be beyond the realm of probability in light of recent White House tradition. Because the State Dinner menu, for some bizarre reason, is often shaped more by the national cuisine of the guest than that of the host...