00638nam a2200085Ia 4500100002700000245004500027260000900072520045200081583001900533  aPURCELL, Susan Kaufman  aChanging nature of US-Mexican relations.  c1997  aExamines developments which caused Mexico and the US to de-emphasize their disagreements and to focus instead on their converging interests, viz. the Mexican debt crisis of 1982 and the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Notes that NAFTA further blurred the line between US foreign and domestic policy with regard to Mexico, and vice versa, and this development holds implications for future bilateral relationship that are both positive and negative.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR