Given all the tension U.S. President Donald Trump has fomented with Mexico over the border wall and immigration, it was surprising to hear the country’s foreign minister say ties are better than they’ve been for a long time.

“That’s a fact of life,” Luis Videgaray said at a news conference Friday in Mexico City with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, after he said the relationship “is closer than it was with previous administrations.” He gave credit to Tillerson, standing just to his left: “I want to highlight the leadership of Secretary Tillerson has been instrumental to achieving this to bringing the countries closer.”
Mandatory glass-half-empty analysis.

Videgaray, who has regularly tried to smooth over differences between the U.S. and Mexico, may have simply been excelling in his role as his nation’s top diplomat. His sentiment seemed to defy the common view that relations between the neighbors -- still embroiled in talks over how to revamp their free trade agreement -- haven’t been this bad for years. Trump has repeatedly portrayed undocumented migrants, most of whom are from Mexico and Central America, as an existential threat to U.S. security and continues to insist that Mexico will pay for a border wall he has promised to build.
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