Posted on 07/29/2022 3:14:00 PM PDT by EBH
There’s a brewing trade dispute between the U.S. and Mexico on energy policy, and it’s getting ugly fast.
“Ooooh, I’m so scared,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) said at a Wednesday press conference, referencing a popular Mexican song and taunting the Biden administration by ordering his staff to play it.
When reporters asked him how he proposes to solve the policy spat, AMLO was defiant: “Nothing will happen.”
What is going on here?
It started early on Wednesday, when U.S. officials argued that AMLO’s energy policies favor Mexico’s state-run electrical utility and oil companies and undermine American business.
The U.S. said it was seeking “dispute settlement consultations” under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USCMA), a trade agreement meant to ensure balanced, reciprocal trading between North American nations. It was a first step in a process that could lead to tariffs on some Mexican products.
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It’s called: “My country is my concern; not yours.”
I wanted to hate him, but...
Mexico said last year they were cutting imports this year. This shouldn’t be a surprise to DC.
One presidential shart from that decrepit pedoperve election stealing poser can do major damage to a carpet. Fear the shart!
Funny thing is china and mexico and russia think they have nothing to laugh about. China is unraveling, russia has its own problems, putins a nutjob that dreams of being a czar and restoring the ussr, and mexico can’t even build working Bronco trucks that won’t break down.
Ooooh I’m so scared (?)
Did he really order his staff to play it? Where’s the song?
Everyone loves wiping their shoes on President Doormat.
I at first thought this was the baylon bee...it isn’t!
AMLO has seen enough stolen elections to know that punk occupying the White House didn’t “win” anything in 2020. That’s why he was among the last world leaders to “congratulate” Xiden for his “victory.” AMLO is the head of state with both the patriotism and the wisdom we Americans are jealous of! Mexico’s champion knows Xiden sorely lacks legitimacy. That’s why he’s jerking that senile groper puppet’s chain SO hard.
Mexican president says -”MMGA” - make Mexico great again!!
I thought the current mexican president was Manuel Labór
cripes...
Ya’ can’t make some of this stuff up!
Probably Toño or Toñito, as thats typical for Antonios - mine included.
But it seems he is also known (by his associates/enemies?) as El Peje - the fish, in Mexican slang. In the newspapers he is of course AMLO.
His family name (apellido) is Lopez, his fathers name. His mothers name is Obrador. He uses both, Spanish style, though many Mexicans dont anymore.
At least it wasn't 'Vicky'...
I give up. I confess I am ignorant. What does ‘Vicky’ mean?
RE: use of maternal and paternal names for people in Mexico....
The late Lester del Rey, the Golden Age science fiction writer whose name his wife Judy Del Rey used to found the SF publisher Del Rey, and who wrote Nerves and the story “Helen O’Loy” claimed this was his full Spanish name:
Ramon Felipe Alvarez-del Rey (and sometimes Ramon Felipe San Juan Mario Silvio Enrico Smith Heartcourt-Brace Sierra y Alvarez del Rey y de los Uerdes).
However, his sister has confirmed that his name was in fact Leonard Knapp.
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