Mexico has always had a difficult relationship with the U.S, Mexico being a much weaker country economically, militarily and has been taken advantage of for most of its existence by the much stronger Government to the North. Many times, under the guise of Manifest Destiny and today under the “new” neocolonial Monroe Doctrine or a one-sided trade pact known as NAFTA.
According to a former U.S Counselor to the State Department, Robert Lansing, In order to corrupt Mexican politicians, America would have to educate Mexicans on American politics and immerse them in the ways of American individualism.
