FENCE AND DEFENCE: CALMING MEXICAN NERVES BY PROXY

President Donald Trump is sending Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to Mexico on a fence-mending mission made more challenging by the actual fence he wants to build. They will face a government rethinking its relationship with its richer neighbour. The two plan to meet Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto as part of a Trump administration trend: top officials seeking to calm nervous nations that their U.S. partnerships are secure in the new era of “America First.”