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Caribbean-Latin America

Mexico President Voices 'Respect' for Trump

2016-07-23

[AnNahar] Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto extended an olive branch to Donald Trump on Friday, voicing respect for the U.S. presidential candidate, whose anti-immigrant rhetoric has angered Mexicans.

So he's calculated that 1) Trump is serious about the wall 2) Trump is serious about having the Mexicans pay for it and 3) Trump might win...

One day after Trump accepted the Republican party's presidential nomination, Pena Nieto vowed to have a "frank and open dialogue" with whoever wins the November election, whether it is the real estate tycoon or Democratic rival

Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Elihu B. Washburne ...
"To Mrs. Hillary Clinton and Mr. Donald Trump, I want to express my highest respect," Pena Nieto said at a White House presser with President Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
It was a change of tone from March, when Pena Nieto condemned Trump's "strident tone" and compared his rhetoric to the rise of Adolf Hitler
...late Fuehrer of Germany, founder of the Third Reich, currently communing with his pals Himmler and Heydrich. He is reincarnated every few days as a politician somebody doesn't like...
and Benito Mussolini
...former dictator of Italia. He perfected the idea of the corporate state and was all the vogue in intellectual circles until he lined up with Adolf in the Second World War. He wanted Italians to be figli de la lupa, and like the sons of wolves they turned on him when they finally got the chance. He ended his days dangling by his heels in a public square next to his mistress...
But Pena Nieto said Friday that he had "never done any finger-pointing" about a U.S. candidate and that his March remarks were "taken out of context."

"The Mexican government will work in a constructive manner and in good faith with whoever is elected," he said.

Posted by:trailing wife

#8 If the amount of remittances going from USA to Mexico drops they are in deep crap. They'll either have to reform (hopefully) or plummet into civil war (or worse civil war than now).

Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-07-23 23:50

#7 If Trump really wants to scare mexico, tell them to get all their illegals back to Mexico or we'll consider it an invalidation of the treaty of guadalupe hildago and we go back to owning everything up to and including Mexico City. I suspect Mexico's attitude would change a bit

Posted by: Silentbrick 2016-07-23 23:18

#6 @#3: Wal-mart / MoneyGram also.

Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2016-07-23 21:12

#5 Machismo.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-07-23 14:33

#4 Hillary is a badly wounded candidate. Nieto is being pragmatic.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-07-23 10:49

#3 The savings realized from the reduction of Federal and State social services payments, anchor baby birthing, meds, etc, to illegals will more than cover fencing costs. I doubt any additional taxes will be required.

I would be in favor of a special tax levy on Wells Fargo money transfers across our southern border.

Posted by: Besoeker 2016-07-23 10:19

#2 Pena Nieto has finally come to understand that if the US charges everyone (without exception) $15 to enter the US from Mexico, and $15 to those who want to enter Mexico from the US, Trump will have his millions to build the wall. It would also slow daily tourism, and very likely reduce the number of Mexican workers who daily cross the US border to work in the USA. The next move would be to tax the railroad cars that enter the US from Mexico. Indeed, there are so many ways Mexico could be hit that Pena Nieto must be praying for a Hillary victory.

Posted by: Whavise Wheque2596 2016-07-23 10:13

#1 But Pena Nieto said Friday that he had "never done any finger-pointing" about a U.S. candidate and that his March remarks were "taken out of context."

"I added 'with all due respect', so you can't hold it against me"

Posted by: Frank G 2016-07-23 09:40

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