Posted on 01/25/2017 12:21:48 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Let me give President Enrique Peña-Nieto a little credit for taking the initiative and setting up a meeting with President Trump. He is under a lot of political pressure south of the border. Let me give President Trump credit for accepting the visit. It shows me that both sides want to get something good started.
This is from the L.A. Times:
The Mexican president’s early visit to the Trump White House underscores the importance that Mexico City places on having smooth relations with the new U.S. administration, despite candidate Trump’s many broadsides against Mexico and Mexicans.
According to a statement released by the Mexican government, Peña Nieto told Trump on Saturday that he hopes to work together "with a focus on respect for the sovereignty of both nations and shared responsibility."
Beyond the politics, Mexico and the U.S. have serious common interests, from cartels that kill Mexicans and bring drugs to the U.S. to over $500 billion in trade.
Sadly, many of Mr. Trump's statements have actually been a huge boost for the Latin American left. In other words, Mr. Trump has become the latest version of the Ugly Gringo so much of the left likes to scream about.
My hope is that President Trump understands the importance of a change in tone and a stable Mexico and Latin America.
The latest IMF forecast is for Latin America to grow slowly over the next couple of years: 1.2% in 2017 and 2.1% in 2018.
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Just a small question.
Why does the President of Mexico have any input whatsoever into who gets to live in the United States?
Silly me. I thought we were a Free Nation, who rule ourselves.
Has any of these yahoos ever negotiated a single thing in their lives?
I wish they’d quit urinating on themselves and patiently wait with the rest of us to see what actually takes place, to see if we need to complain or not.
Good grief!
Bring your checkbook Enrique.
Have him bring a dozen extra planes to take some of his citizens back with him.
PS
The crap about selling all this great stuff to Mexico is horsepoo.
What they are taking credit for is companies shipping components to their Mexican subsidiaries which assemble them and sell them back in the U.S.
Mexico buys a fraction of that for actual consumption.
So there is no gigantic Mexican market to sell to. It’s just a U turn through a cheap labor factory there.
Coming with sombrero in hand.
Is he coming to make his first payment for the wall?
Hope he’s bringing the checkbook
There is a luxury goods market that is growing, but still quite small because only about 1.5 million Mexicans fit into the upper income category. For every one of them there are 50 poor, mostly rural, for whom even the U-turn factories have not benefited. When my former employer had a maquilla factory in Juarez, workers came from central Mexico, hundreds of miles away. The country’s poverty is not going to be remedied by continuing what NAFTA tried to start, because even with it the middle class has lost ground.
“Let me give President Enrique Peña-Nieto a little credit for taking the initiative and setting up a meeting with President Trump.”
Neito has little choice: if he doesn’t try to get in front of this thing, President Trump can simply invoke the trigger clause for the U.S. to withdraw from NAFTA, lock, stock and barrel.
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