Frenemies: Mexico & the USA, a History

American History Hit

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America, History

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🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

With almost 2,000 miles of shared border, the United States and Mexico have a long history of cooperation and conflict. From territory and trade, to migration and the war on drugs - in this episode we are going to explore this relationship.

Don is joined by Professor Renata Keller from the University of Nevada, Reno. Renata's upcoming book is 'The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War'. She is also the author of 'Nuclear Reactions: Latin America and the Cuban Missile Crisis' and 'Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution'.

Edited by Tim Arstall, Produced by Sophie Gee, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.

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1:17.3	That's about it, folks.
1:18.5	As far as I'm able to muster from my Spanish one and two in high school,
1:22.7	Americanos are famously weak in our foreign languages.
1:26.5	And given our geography, it's kind of understandable,
1:28.7	two oceans and an expansive landmass. We could be forgiven for that, except for the fact that for
1:34.0	hundreds of years we have shared a nearly 2,000-mile border with our Spanish-speaking neighbor
1:39.3	to the south, a nation utterly critical to our existence today. But U.S.-Mexico relations have been dicey from the start.
1:47.4	Even before our two nations were born of revolutions when we both broke from our European origins,
1:53.2	between issues of economics, labor, migration, trade, legal, and otherwise, never mind outright war,
2:03.1	life on our southern border has always been, well, complicated. But given how pivotal modern U.S.-Mexico relations have become in current
2:09.5	American politics, two words, border crisis, it demands Americans pay closer attention to the
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