Obama's Mexican hat dance

According to local boosters in both countries, the equivalent of the new world relationship between the U.S. and Mexico would emulate the bilateral ties between Washington and London yielding yet another special relationship. But what came almost naturally between the two self-perceiving Anglo-Saxon nations never quite came off between the Rio Bravo partners. Just days before Barack Obama was to be inaugurated in Washington, Calderon came to town to wish him well and claim the right of primacy in Mexico’s connection to Washington. It will most likely be a lost cause.