Distant neighbors

Workers build the border wall between Sonora (Mexico) and Arizona (USA) .Teresa de Miguel

For Mexico, being the "distant neighbor" of the United States has been a curse.

Sharing more than 3,000 kilometers of border with the most powerful country in the world is a brutal challenge.

The difficult neighborhood was made clear 35 years ago by Alan Riding, a British journalist born in Brazil and living in Mexico for 13 years as a correspondent for

,

and

, who stamped that title on his book that became in a 

(best seller).

Since then, the expression "distant neighbors" has been stamped on the ...

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