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Not very well. Mexico, located on the southern tip of North America, has three international borders, one with the United States of America (capital: Washington, DC) and two with Central American nations Belize (capital: Belmopan) and Guatemala (capital: Guatemala City).

Mexico's relations towards the United States have been very complex (an instance of a love-hate relationship), since 150 years ago when Mexico lost control of half its territory to the United States, during the Mexican-American War, and later interventions by the United States into Mexican internal affairs well until the end of Cold War.

Guatemala and Belize used to belong to Mexico, but broke to form the Central American Federation, a territory which some years later, would in turn break into the Central American nations that now compose the "land bridge" between Mexico and South America. The best term to describe the relationship between Mexico and its southern neighbors is of "amicable indifference".

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