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Frenemies: Mexico & the USA, a History

02 Jun 2025

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With almost 2,000 miles of shared border, the United States and Mexico have a long history of cooperation and conflict. From territory and trade, to migration and the war on drugs - in this episode we are going to explore this relationship.Don is joined by Professor Renata Keller from the University of Nevada, Reno. Renata's upcoming book is 'The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War'. She is also the author of 'Nuclear Reactions: Latin America and the Cuban Missile Crisis' and 'Mexico's Cold War: Cuba, the United States, and the Legacy of the Mexican Revolution'.Edited by Tim Arstall, Produced by Sophie Gee, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe.  You can take part in our listener survey here.All music from Epidemic Sounds.American History Hit is a History Hit podcast

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70.043 - 92.87 Don Wildman

Hola, oyentes de American History Hit. Soy Don Wildman, your presenter. That's about it, folks. As far as I'm able to muster from my Spanish 1 and 2 in high school. Americanos are famously weak in our foreign languages. And given our geography, it's kind of understandable. Two oceans and an expansive land mass.

93.61 - 109.164 Don Wildman

We could be forgiven for that, except for the fact that for hundreds of years we have shared a nearly 2,000-mile border with our Spanish-speaking neighbor to the south, a nation utterly critical to our existence today. But U.S.-Mexico relations have been dicey from the start.

109.244 - 125.431 Don Wildman

Even before our two nations were born of revolutions, when we both broke from our European origins, between issues of economics, labor... Migration, Trade, legal and otherwise, never mind outright war, life on our southern border has always been, well...

126.822 - 139.727 Don Wildman

But given how pivotal modern US-Mexico relations have become in current American politics, two words, border crisis, it demands Americans pay closer attention to the extraordinary history that brought us here.

139.767 - 152.971 Don Wildman

So today we discuss it all with the widely published Professor Renata Keller of the University of Nevada, whose newest book, The Fate of the Americas, comes out very soon this coming October. Professor Keller, hello, buenos dias, I should say.

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