Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.
From Adolfo Aguilar Zinser
The political parties have lost their loyalties.
Individuals move and shift from one party to another simply on their aspirations for office.
I am an undiplomatic diplomat.
My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.
Mexico has never been anybody's backyard.
Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government.
Mexico is intensely affected by all kinds of things that are shipped into this country from the United States.
Trust comes from deeds.
The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.
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