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This week, on St. Valentine's Day, Jimmy Carter flies to Mexico City for three days of heart-to-heart talks with López Portillo as a long overdue step toward making good the promise of his White House toast. Carter will find his hosts expecting to be treated with far more respect than U.S. Presidents c have generally shown in the I past. "This time," said the conservative daily Novedades in an editorial, "Jimmy Carter and José López Portillo meet as equals, and Mexico will be looking for signs that the U.S. recognizes this...
...their best customer but also their best friend. His itinerary is very businesslike. After landing at Benito Juarez Airport and offering some good wishes in his Georgia-accented Spanish, Carter will go straight to the Mexican National Palace for the first of two private sessions with López Portillo. He will lunch with Mexican diplomats, consult with the U.S. embassy staff and address the Mexican Congress...
Carter expects to strike no major bargains with López Portillo. He hopes only to spur negotiations-on oil and natural gas, immigration and trade policies. Carter, says one adviser, "must restore a sense of mutual trust and cooperation. He's got to change the background music, get rid of the rancor and put the whole relationship back on a candid, open and honest basis." Even these limited goals will tax Carter's formidable skill as face-to-face negotiator and healer of hurt feelings, for the Mexicans believe, with considerable reason, that the U.S. has long...
Progress seemed close at hand when Carter took office and pointedly made López Portillo his first state visitor. The U.S. President welcomed the meeting as an opportunity "to correct some of the long-standing economic problems of our two nations." Instead, under pressure from labor unions to stem illegal immigration, Carter and Congress beefed up border patrols and made employers of illegal aliens subject to fines. The U.S. urged Mexico to crack down on drug smuggling, but then became dismayed when young Americans ended up in Mexican jails...
...Negotiations with six U.S. companies were almost complete and a 900-mile, $1.5 billion pipeline was under construction when Schlesinger abruptly vetoed the deal because Mexico's price of $2.60 per 1,000 cu. ft. was higher than the $2.16 being charged by Canadian suppliers. López Portillo vowed to burn off the gas and leave the oil in the ground rather than sell it to the U.S. The pipeline was rerouted to the industrial city of Monterrey, and as a further gesture of defiance, the Mexicans decided to inaugurate the "gasduct" on March 18, the 41st anniversary...