Zuckermann from Denver

Leo Zuckermann says forthrightly that neither Mexico nor Latin America figures into the foreign policy conversations at the Democratic National Convention. It's unclear whether Zuckermann is surprised (doubt it) or disappointed (doubt this too, though not as much) by this. It's the old paradoxical Latin American complaint: the region never gets enough attention from the Americans, but that's partly a sign of the fundamental health of Latin America, and it's not clear that the benefits of increased American attention would outweigh the drawbacks.