Ken Salazar is steering Mexico toward better U.S. relations

Congratulations to President Joe Biden for persuading Mexico’s President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to meet with him in Washington on July 12 to discuss key Mexico-U.S. issues, especially those pertaining to the border. I believe, however, that much of the credit should go to the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, who has done something that no other American official has been able to do – build a relationship with López Obrador.

On July 5, the New York Times published a front-page article entitled “Biden Envoy’s Cozy Ties to Mexican Leader Worry US Officials.” It was a hatchet job designed to undercut Salazar.

I worked with Salazar in the administration of Colorado Gov. Roy Romer in the 1990s and always found him to be highly focused and a person of…