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...ready to defend it with our lives. But it has not touched our lives as yet." Just how much oil wealth will affect the average Mexican is uncertain. One worry is to what extent endemic corruption will siphon off some of those billions. Another is whether López Portillo's ambitious dreams of industrialization will really benefit the impoverished millions desperate for work, social services, or both. The 600,000 jobs promised by López Portillo, to cite one example, are 200,000 fewer than the number of youths who enter the work force every year. On balance, though...
Even so, Washington policymakers are encouraged by Mexico's more active role in foreign affairs?notably in López Portillo's expressed interest in working out bilateral aid programs with and for other democratic nations in Latin America. Says a State Department official...
...After Nicaragua and the threat of new revolutions elsewhere in Central America, it is encouraging to see Mexico taking a more assertive stance in the defense of democratic interests." That assertiveness, López Portillo has made clear, extends to establishing a new relationship with Mexico's powerful northern neighbor. The prickly encounters between Don Pepe and Jimmy Carter suggest that the relationship will not be an easy one. Yet in the long run, a partnership based on mutual respect, rather than on force majeure, should be as beneficial to the U.S. as to Mexico...
...toast was yet another reminder to Washington that oil wealth has given Mexico a new clout, which López Portillo is quite willing to use when it suits his purpose. In June a Mexican exploratory well in the Bay of Campeche exploded, uncorking millions of barrels of crude, some of which has washed up on beaches in Texas. The U.S. has argued that Mexico should help pay cleanup costs. Last August, Robert C. Krueger, who was designated Special Ambassador for Mexican Affairs to assist Ambassador Patrick Lucey in overseeing the broad range of issues that have arisen between...
...state of the union message, López Portillo complained that the worldwide press coverage had "whimsically" singled out Mexico for criticism. "There are ten wells out of control at this time," he said. "Seven are in the U.S., one in Canada and one in Iran. Yet we hear nothing of these wells and their spills polluting the oceans and ruining the ecology. The media have nothing to say about them, and it is strange...