Tim Padgett wrote in Time magazine, Nov. 12, 2007, regarding the Merida Initiative (President Bush's two-year, $1.4 billion anti-drug aid proposal for Mexico):
"But the aid's real value is probably political, at least in the eyes of the Bush Administration. The conservative Calderon is a rare U.S. ally in a Latin America that is increasingly steering leftward. Because he won last year's presidential election by a less than 1% margin, the White House sees the aid as a solid means of shoring up his stature at home and abroad. It also allows Bush to look as if he's fulfilling his own 2000 campaign pledge to make Mexico a foreign policy priority - after the country was anything but the past seven years."
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