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The United States once aspired to a free hemisphere. We have dropped that ball recently. The recent market reaction to the Mexican election was not positive. We should be very weary of a Statist government south of the border. Our national goal should always be to shine as a beacon of freedom around the world and work for free markets and free people everywhere. But most especially we need a free and prosperous Mexico. I hope their new president will help in that effort.

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Jun 5Liked by Elise Labott

Nothing wrong with statist governments. They're usually too incompetent to actually influence anything so all good. It's the cartels that are the real problem on the ground. They're the real local powers along the border regions in both the US and Mexico.

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Jun 5Liked by Elise Labott

Excellent article Elise. Only one grammatical error in the title - replace the question mark with a full stop. After all the inbox remains the same regardless of the personality and eyes reading the file. This is as true for the US and Mexico.

With the US onshoring manufacturing after the changes in energy supply and COVID, Mexico is replacing China in the supply chains of production. As luck would have it, the Chinese are now setting up in Mexico to maintain their influence in the continental market and that's fine. They're really good at scale assembly of industrial goods. With the Mexicans in charge of the territory it's a lose lose for Xi and his increasingly Stalinist government strategy. And that's great news for everyone. Oh, except the Chinese.

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I hope your right

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