"You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world"
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Diplomacy loves the language of moral grandeur because it turns hard bargaining into a shared hymn. Vicente Foxs assurance - "You may count on Mexico's support" - is doing two jobs at once: offering alignment while quietly negotiating status. The line flatters its unnamed addressee as a veteran of history ("vast experience") and as a custodian of righteousness ("noblest causes of mankind"), then folds Mexico into that aura through the key word "together". Its elegance is that it sells cooperation as inevitability, not concession.
Fox was a president who branded himself as a modernizer and a break from the PRI era, eager to reposition Mexico as an outward-facing democracy with global credibility. In that context, this is less a warm compliment than a strategic claim: Mexico is not merely a regional actor reacting to Washington or Brussels; it is a partner in shaping "a better world". The phrase "count on" reads like a contract clause disguised as encouragement.
The subtext is transactional even as the rhetoric floats above transaction. By framing support as rooted in the others commitment to noble causes, Fox sets a moral condition without naming it. If the partner stays on the side of the angels, Mexico is in; if not, Mexico has a principled off-ramp. Its also a bid for influence: by praising experience as "invaluable", Fox implies counsel will be welcomed, not just compliance expected. The sentence is a soft handshake with a firm grip.
Fox was a president who branded himself as a modernizer and a break from the PRI era, eager to reposition Mexico as an outward-facing democracy with global credibility. In that context, this is less a warm compliment than a strategic claim: Mexico is not merely a regional actor reacting to Washington or Brussels; it is a partner in shaping "a better world". The phrase "count on" reads like a contract clause disguised as encouragement.
The subtext is transactional even as the rhetoric floats above transaction. By framing support as rooted in the others commitment to noble causes, Fox sets a moral condition without naming it. If the partner stays on the side of the angels, Mexico is in; if not, Mexico has a principled off-ramp. Its also a bid for influence: by praising experience as "invaluable", Fox implies counsel will be welcomed, not just compliance expected. The sentence is a soft handshake with a firm grip.
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