五年前，墨西哥总统福克斯试图让布什相信，为了防止美国内部的排外强烈反应把它与拉美的关系复杂化，而且使得类似美洲国家自由贸易协定等目标付诸东流，就必须采取行动。
Five years ago, Mexico’s President Vicente Fox tried to convince Bush that something had to be done before a nativist backlash in the US complicated its relations with Latin America and made goals such as a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) impossible.