PositiveThe Washington Post... at times reading America Through Foreign Eyes feels like a humbling comeuppance for many of us—particularly journalists like myself—who perhaps have smugly judged Mexico and other societies as somehow more wayward than our own ... Castañeda’s book is short on storytelling and anecdotes and long on wonky policy musings. And despite reminding us that Mexico must always be vigilant of what goes on up north, he doesn’t follow up on the implications of America’s erratic behavior for his own country. Not even a mention of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador ... But obsessing over the lack of human narratives would be to miss the larger point of this important read and its impeccable timing. Yes, the world is watching America, especially its neighbors—all largely rooting as much for themselves as for the United States.
