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Mexico’s president taunts Biden over energy policy trade fight: ‘Ooooh, I’m so scared’
Fortune ^ | 7/21/22 | Will Daniel

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; california; energy; gavinnewsom; mexico; policy; trade; whitesupremacists
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To: EBH

It’s called: “My country is my concern; not yours.”


21 posted on 07/29/2022 3:56:13 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: EBH

I wanted to hate him, but...


22 posted on 07/29/2022 4:24:36 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: EBH

Mexico said last year they were cutting imports this year. This shouldn’t be a surprise to DC.


23 posted on 07/29/2022 5:01:03 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: EBH
You should be scared, Mexico! You should be scared, Mexico!

One presidential shart from that decrepit pedoperve election stealing poser can do major damage to a carpet. Fear the shart!

24 posted on 07/29/2022 5:04:39 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: SmokingJoe

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.


25 posted on 07/29/2022 5:51:56 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EBH

Ooooh I’m so scared (?)
Did he really order his staff to play it? Where’s the song?


26 posted on 07/29/2022 5:52:26 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: EBH

Everyone loves wiping their shoes on President Doormat.


27 posted on 07/29/2022 5:54:28 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

I at first thought this was the baylon bee...it isn’t!


28 posted on 07/29/2022 5:57:12 PM PDT by bitt ( <img src=' 'width=50%> )
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To: dfwgator

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.


29 posted on 07/29/2022 6:01:29 PM PDT by Big Brother Go to Hell
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To: EBH

Mexican president says -”MMGA” - make Mexico great again!!


30 posted on 07/29/2022 6:08:00 PM PDT by elpadre (W )
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To: EBH

31 posted on 07/29/2022 6:11:34 PM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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I thought the current mexican president was Manuel Labór


32 posted on 07/29/2022 6:38:53 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: bitt

cripes...


33 posted on 07/29/2022 6:58:34 PM PDT by stylin19a (It's a fine line tween a numerator and denomiator. only a fraction of people will find this funny)
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To: fidelis

34 posted on 07/29/2022 7:01:17 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: bitt

Ya’ can’t make some of this stuff up!


35 posted on 07/29/2022 7:46:38 PM PDT by EBH (Let God Sort Them Out. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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To: frank ballenger

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.


36 posted on 07/29/2022 10:08:04 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: frank ballenger
but everyone knew him as Nancy.

At least it wasn't 'Vicky'...


37 posted on 07/29/2022 10:10:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I give up. I confess I am ignorant. What does ‘Vicky’ mean?


38 posted on 07/29/2022 10:24:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah7mS9H_TOM


39 posted on 07/29/2022 10:25:10 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: buwaya

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.


40 posted on 07/29/2022 10:31:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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