ABSTRACT
In this chapter, a new dynamic for spelling out national integrity is offered in the context of a new geopolitics brought on by the arrival of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America.
Since the elections of 2016, Mexico and Mexicans have become a recurring topic to explain a good part of the economic problems of the US, and to justify national loyalty that is not necessarily based on the present-day migratory dynamics from Mexico to the United States, on the role of NAFTA (now USMCA), or on the contributions made by millions of Mexicans who live north of the border.
In answer to Trump’s anti-Mexican discourse, Mexican strategies of defense appeal to the rationality of the binational relationship, to sentiments of resistance in the context of a relationship that for many decades has been contradictory, asymmetric, tense, and erratic.
This has not only affected the binational relationship, but also the ties Mexico has with the countries in northern Central America and has a noteworthy impact on the Mexico-Guatemala cross-border region.
