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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DJT has already asked to see a Naval Academy football player who has had a career in the Seabees... Word is he will simply be told “Go build that F’ing wall! Just tell me what you need.”
Good fences make good neighbors.
Nuck Fafta
The new Mexican Revolution starts today!
Yes, these are 10+ million cucarachas. They consume much but produce little except more cucarachas.
A suggestion
Kick the pope out of the bedroom and buy your citizens boxes of condoms!
As states were being called for Trump last night, the Mexican Peso dropped. When I went to bed it was worth less than a nickel.
That would work for me too.
Lol. I meant structurally. Related to their ability to work, travel, vacation. They have large modern functioning cities. The cartels are another story. Hell, we could show Detroit and Chicago for destruction and death.
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