ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
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Mexico’s unflinching stand has earned praise from across Latin America and the world, writes DAVID RABY

DONALD TRUMP’S loud-mouthed threats to all and sundry are enough to cause anxiety and panic around the world, and especially in near neighbours of the declining superpower he is about to inherit from that master of senile hypocrisy, Joe Biden.
Panic and anxiety are precisely what the orange fascist wants to incite.
The recipe worked like a charm with that pathetic excuse for a national leader, PM Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose craven uninvited trip to Mar-a-Lago to plead with Trump not to slap tariffs on his northern satellite led to brutal humiliation, with the CBC (Canada’s BBC) producing a vicious satirical sketch of Trudeau being treated as a servile puppy.
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