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The history of the boundary between Mexico and america stretches alongside 200 years and 2,000 mls - the tortuous epic of the man-made lines that hasn't only hardened and become more solid as time passes, but has changed meanings too. In the beginning, it was an idea - the approximate and inhospitable edge of the huge Spanish Empire and the start of no man's land. Then, it was a lines on paper - a porous boundary with no physical obstacles. In times of serenity, it was a place of trade and assistance; in times of turmoil, it was the stage where two different individuals clashed, as well as the appointment of the North and South of international geopolitics. Two centuries previously, the boundary was produced by huge deserts and dangerous regions in which no person wanted to live - a vaguely described and surveyed boundary. Today, in the next 10 years of the 21st hundred years, despite being positioned in one of the most inclement habitats in the world, additionally it is the world's busiest. It functions such as a country alone considering the level of economic operations carried out across the lines, not to mention being one of the most monitored regions of the planet. Some experts have even called it a low-warfare zone. Consider, for comparison's sake, the boundary between Belgium and holland, where crossing means heading from one pub to some other, which is hardly recognized when one leaves one land or the other. Or consider the open limitations of Poland and Ukraine, which involves beautiful green pastures furnished with all sorts of art. How do the boundary of Mexico and america transition from a wilderness for an overpopulated, violent, dynamic, buoyant, culturally dynamic land in such a relatively small amount of time, where a plethora of legal and against the law goods combination in both directions? Curiously, there is a period when both countries were not even neighbors. France was between them, possessing the huge land of the Louisiana territory, where Napoleon wanted to set up a French empire in the Americas. At that time, Mexico had the official but unnatural name of "New Spain" - deceptive, since atlases from the 16th hundred years had already called it "America Mexicana" - and america was approximately how big is the present-day UK and Ireland put together. The disruptions in European countries soon put both most conspicuous countries of the continent side by side, and both of these North American nations garnered the world's attention in the 19th hundred years. Definitely not everything has been bad in the relationship between your two nations. In fact, the border has developed its own practices, background, and personality into one not entirely Mexican or entirely American. Timothy Brown, a scholar of the frontier and globalization, effectively points out that "to many Mexicans, their north claims, with half their nation's land but only one-fifth its people, appear too American, a little alien, vaguely un-Mexican," and likewise, "to many People in america, their own Southwest sometimes seems similarly alien and terribly Hispanic." Thus, on numerous events, both countries have found across the line a way of helping the other person for mutual advantage. By promoting the colonization of the much north from the past due 19th to the first 20th century, President Porfirio Díaz helped the southern USA develop a flourishing agricultural economy suffered by the Mexican labor force.
