Mex­i­co is fac­ing a sec­ond Don­ald Trump pres­i­den­cy, and few coun­tries can match its ex­pe­ri­ence as a tar­get of Trump’s rhetoric: There have been threats to close the bor­der, im­pose tar­iffs and even send U.S. forces to fight Mex­i­can drug car­tels if the coun­try doesn’t do more to stem the flow of mi­grants and drugs.

That’s not to men­tion what mass de­por­ta­tions of mi­grants who are in the U.S. il­le­gal­ly could do to re­mit­tances — the mon­ey sent home by mi­grants — that have be­come one of Mex­i­co’s main sources of in­come.

But as much as this sec­ond round looks like the first round — when Mex­i­co paci­fied Trump by qui­et­ly ced­ing to his im­mi­gra­tion de­mands — cir­cum­stances have changed, and not nec­es­sar­i­ly for the bet­ter. To­day, Mex­i­co has in Clau­dia Shein­baum a some­what stern left­ist ide­o­logue as pres­i­dent, and Trump is not known for han­dling such re­la­tions well.

By  MARK STEVEN­SON and MARÍA VERZA

MEX­I­CO CITY (AP)