Rice Visit Aims to Mend Troubled U.S. – Mexico Relations
"When Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Mexico Thursday, she'll turn her attention to America's southern neighbor - which President Bush said would be a priority of his first term, but which was summarily relegated to the back of the filing drawer after the 9/11 attacks. Now the White House is showing renewed interest in issues that involve
the US's closest neighbors - immigration, border security, and trade chief among them," the Christian Science Monitor reports. "State Department officials say Rice, and later in the month Bush, will press border security issues. But Mr. Fox, facing a public that believes he has gotten nothing from his touted friendship with Bush, is more interested in measures to improve the conditions and rights of Mexicans living in the US."