Trump's rocky dealings with Mexico could have severe consequences

By Christopher Woody
Businesses Insider
February 25, 2018 3pm

The conflict over the wall has placed acute pressure on the US-Mexico relationship, but Trump's broader approach to dealings with the US's southern neighbor threatens to have a lasting, and perhaps more significant, impact on ties between the two countries.
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Hours after the tense phone call, Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, called Peña Nieto "to help smooth things over," according to The Post.
Despite little foreign-policy experience, Kushner has become Trump's point person on Mexico, managing back-channel communications that have made him "almost a shadow secretary of state," The Post reported a few weeks after Trump took office.
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Trump's "relationship with Mexico isn't strategically driven," Arturo Sarukan, a former Mexican ambassador to the US, told The Post. "It's not even business; it's personal, driven by motivations and triggers, and that's a huge problem. It could end up with the US asking itself, 'Who lost Mexico?'"

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