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Weekly Report - 3 October 2006

MEXICO: Senate vote seen as turning point in foreign policy

The vote by the US Senate on 29 September to erect two barriers along part of the 3,200km border with Mexico signals a change in US-Mexican relations. As the House of Representatives had already voted in favour of building the barriers, loosely called walls, and President George W Bush had said that he would approve the legislation once the Senate had voted, the US$1.2bn barrier project will at least be started. The Mexican government had objected furiously, and lobbied hard, against the barriers, but to no avail.

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