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Foreign Opinions About America

Mexican Hostility

• Literary Digest, 1912 •

The attached article was penned in 1912 by a Mexican editorial writer who shared his countryman’s deep distrust of American motives and believed that the United States is the “natural enemy” of Mexico:

“No other people can have less friendship for this hostile neighbor than the Mexicans.”

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