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...Staff writer Max N. Brondfield can be reached at mbrondf@fas.harvard.edu...
...past decade, the country's diplomatic role seems to have fallen aside - apparent in Mexico's failure to engage with the coup crisis in Honduras last year - and has been assumed by its South American rival Brazil. In fact, says a senior Mexican official, President Felipe Calderón and his compatriots are all too aware that the foreign policy spotlight in the Americas today is "shining over Brazil." (See pictures from inside Mexico's drug tunnels...
...Mexico's absence has left a critical leadership hole in the hemisphere's midsection. But as Calderón gets set to host U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on March 23, he looks determined to fill that void again. Last month he convened a summit in Cancún to create a multilateral organization promoting regional unity - a body that includes all 32 Latin American and Caribbean nations but pointedly excludes the U.S. and Canada. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) "makes possible an old desire that [we] have [our] own space for dialogue and political...
...Neil says that even if Calderón initiatives like CELAC snub Washington, they "can actually be a good thing for the U.S." That's because they signal Mexico's renewed desire to do the heavy lifting in its main sphere of influence, Central America and the Caribbean, so that Washington - which suffered a diplomatic debacle last year when it tried to mediate the Honduras crisis - won't have...
...Staff writer Naveen N. Srivatsa can be reached at srivatsa@fas.harvard.edu...