In the past. our relations with Mexico have suffered from a lack of understanding. The bureaucracy in Washington has tended only to respond to affairs on our bilateral agenda when they have reached the boiling point. a point where solutions satisfactory to both parties are much more difficult to devise. We have seen the results of this lack of understanding in the recent highly publicized confrontations over such issues as energy sales. immigration policy. and oil pollution. The establishment of a coordinator for Mexican affairs with the rank of ambassador to be based primarily here in Washington would help to isolate such problems and to identify mutually beneficial solutions before tensions increase. Our relations with Mexico are so complex. so diverse. that we require such a senior official here in Washington to guarantee that problems are not buried in the bureaucratic maze and left to simmer.
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