Arellano: Mexican ambassador says 'it's business as usual' after the midterms and Miller's promotion

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Ambassador Roberto Lazzeri Montaño was confident but clear-eyed, knowing he needs to keep el Norte happy — but not at the expense of his patria.

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Roberto Lazzeri Montaño has a Sisyphean task ahead of him as Mexico’s new ambassador to the United States.

The relationship between the two countries — forever adversarial yet eternally co-dependent — has become even more fraught under President Trump, who infamously declared, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best” during the 2015 speech that launched his first campaign.

This week, Trump threatened to double tariffs on Mexico, our biggest trading partner, if it doesn’t stop a caravan of migrants from reaching the border, which is already effectively shut down thanks to his multibillion-dollar enforcement regime and the masked federal agents terrorizing Latinos nationwide.

He has also repeatedly suggested sending U.S. troops south of the border to pursue drug traffickers, an offer that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has criticized as a threat to her nation’s sovereignty.

“So we have a sad history about intervention that, of course, no one wants to replicate,” Lazzeri said during a one-hour conversation with Times journalists at the newspaper’s El Segundo office last week. “So we arrive to every negotiating table, to every conversation, knowing what’s possible and knowing what’s not possible.”

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The Mexico City native exuded diplomatic tact and no arrogance. He sported a tightly cropped beard and wore a simple gray suit, a skinny black tie held in place by a clip. A pin of the Mexican and U.S. flags adorned his lapel. The 42-year-old spoke in flawless but studied English and brought no assistant with him, occasionally jotting down thoughts in a moleskin notebook.

Mostly, he listened and responded to our questions. He was in Los Angeles — where he lived for a few years in the 2010s while…

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