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  As Clinton Visits Mexico, Strains Show in Relations
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MediaNewspaper - New York Times
News DateWednesday, March 25, 2009 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionBy MARC LACEY and GINGER THOMPSON
Published: March 25, 2009

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s economy is being dragged down by the recession to the north. American addicts have turned Mexico into a drug superhighway, and its police and soldiers are under assault from American guns. Nafta promised 15 years ago that Mexican trucks would be allowed on American roads, but Congress said they were unsafe.

United States-Mexican relations are in the midst of what can be described as a neighborly feud, one that stretches along a lengthy shared fence. That border fence, which has become a wall in some places, is another irritant.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Mexico on Wednesday for what will be the first in a parade of visits by top administration officials, including President Obama himself next month, to try to head off a major foreign policy crisis close to home. They will find a country mired in a deepening slump, miffed by signs of protectionism in its largest trading partner, and torn apart by a drug war for which many in Mexico blame customers in the United States.

Hours before Ms. Clinton’s arrival, Mexican authorities announced that they had captured one of the nation’s 37 worst drug traffickers, a man included on “most wanted” list police issued two days ago.
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