When the Pew Research Center released its 36-country survey on June 23, a single result broke from the global pattern: in Mexico, favorability toward the United States rose while it slid almost everywhere else. The share of Mexicans with a positive view of their northern neighbor climbed to 40%, up from 29% a year earlier — the only measured increase in the entire study.
A caveat belongs at the top. Mexicans did not warm to Donald Trump. Pew recorded no country in which confidence in the U.S. president rose, and Mexico stayed one of his harshest audiences, with just 11% approving of his handling of tariffs. What ticked up was the broader image of the United States as a country, against a global backdrop where the median favorable rating was 37% and ratings fell in 15 of the 24 countries Pew could compare year over year.
