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If you’ve only been reading the headlines, you might think it was all about El Chapo and a wall, but there’s a lot more to the US-Mexico relationship. After decades of economic and commercial cooperation and bilateral growth, a lot rides on copacetic Mexican-American relations. So what exactly hangs in the balance? What is currently threatened or strained in this relationship? And what challenges on the horizon, election-based and not, could prove consequential to this promising alliance?
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Elliot GersonExecutive VP of Policy and Public Programs at The Aspen Institute -
Ricardo SalinasFounder and Chairman, Salinas Group -
Pamela StarrDirector, US-Mexico Network; Associate Professor, School of Internatio... -
James SteinbergUniversity Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law...
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