Posted on 11/09/2016 9:26:28 AM PST by BradtotheBone
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Hours after the United States elected Donald Trump to be its next president, Mexico began carefully laying the groundwork for a relationship with a new leader who campaigned against its citizens and threatened to wreak havoc with its economy.
President Enrique Pena Nieto sent a series of messages from his official Twitter account Wednesday morning, congratulating not Trump himself but the American electorate, and said he was ready to work with Trump to advance the countries' relationship.
"Mexico and the United States are friends, partners and allies that must continue collaborating for the competitiveness and development of North America," Pena Nieto wrote.
The messages came shortly after Mexico's Treasury Secretary Jose Antonio Meade tried to strike a reassuring tone in a news conference by saying that Mexico's financial position is strong in the face of a falling peso. He says no immediate actions are planned.
But the threat is real. The United States is Mexico's largest trading partner and the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has said he wants to re-negotiate, is the backbone of that commerce.
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BOOOOOFREAKINGHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Better crank up a brick factory.
BOOOMMMMMM!!!!1
Carefully lay the groundwork to pay for the wall, dumbass.
Get ready to pay for the wall.
I saw last night the peso dropped one half.
BBC showed the reaction in Mexico City.
I thought people were going to start jumping
out of windows.
It’s INCREDIBLY racist that these people think that Mexico cannot get by without parasitizing America.
What is there to ponder?
Tell your people to FOLLOW THE LAWS. -and we’ll have no problemos!
They need to get their checkbooks out. The Wall isn’t going to pay for itself!
Say hi to all your relatives when they come home!
Make room for ten million of your citizens to return, amigos.
They need to start thinking about how to pay for that wall.
If they paid attention to Trump, they’d know that he wants them to thrive, just not by exploiting us, but rather by working with us. Growth is not a zero-sum game.
Its citizens??? You mean the ones who risked, life, limb, and fortune to escape that hellhole of a country? The ones who would gladly accept US Citizenship if offered? Those citizens?
Filthy propagandist AP, at it again.
He the same one that used the f word against Trump?
Take back your citizens, Mexico, shut up, and start helping us build a wall.
He did no such thing. He campaigned against criminals and law breakers.
Everybody should return to Mexico and discuss how to handle it!
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