Discouraging Point of View about Mexico as a "Failing State"

[doncoulter]

I read this column a couple of days ago, and I think it makes some good points. But the author loses me when he says we should "blame a combination of managerial incompetence and ideological inanity from Donald Trump and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador." That's ridiculous. I am no fan of either president -- in my view you could call them Dumb (AMLO) and Dumber (Trump) -- but blaming them alone for Mexico's problems is absurd. They've arguably made things worse, but this shit started a long time ago.