A dangerous backtrack on the US-Mexico security relationship

On Tues­day, the Mex­i­can Con­gress passed a new law severe­ly restrict­ing the oper­a­tions of for­eign law enforce­ment agents in Mex­i­co. It is clear­ly direct­ed at the Unit­ed States in retal­i­a­tion for the U.S. arrest of Mexico’s for­mer Sec­re­tary of Defense Sal­vador Cien­fue­gos on drug traf­fick­ing and cor­rup­tion charges at the Los Ange­les air­port in October.…