Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has cancelled his planned visit to the U.S. where he was expected to meet with President Donald J. Trump. The cancellation comes after Mexico’s government denounced Trump’s new border security measures aimed at interfering with the cash flow of the very Mexican cartels believed to have financed the current Mexican president’s campaign.
Wednesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” former Mexican President Vicente Fox said current Mexican President Peña-Nieto should cancel his meeting with President Donald Trump over potential tariffs and talk of border wall reimbursement. Partial transcript as follows: COOPER: I spoke to
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has taken to social media to denounce the executive order signed by President Donald J. Trump calling for the construction of a border wall and stronger security. Peña Nieto said that Mexico will not pay for the project.
President Donald Trump reacted to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s repeated insistence that his country would not pay for a wall on the Southern border. “If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be
Authorities arrested 48 men in connection with a protest that evolved into a large scale riot and the looting of numerous downtown stores. The protest appeared to be connected to Mexico’s most recent spike in gasoline prices.
Trump’s proposals for making Mexico pay for the wall have never assumed the funds would be collected from them before the wall was built.
Reuters reports that Mexican officials plan to “defend free trade with the United States by using border security and immigration policy to gain leverage in talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump after he takes office next month.”
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, in bidding farewell to the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro during a ceremony in Havana attended by various world leaders, quoted the island nation’s independence leader José Martí, saying, “Mexico is a land of refuge.”
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s approval rating has slumped to a new low since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency last week, in part due to his invitation of the real estate tycoon to Mexico during the campaign, a poll showed on Sunday.
Although Donald Trump’s election was shocking to the Mexican government, President Enrique Pena Nieto was one of first world leaders to congratulate President-elect Trump and seems ready to negotiate a new economic deal to prevent a trade war.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took to Twitter early Wednesday morning to celebrate the U.S. electoral process and congratulate President-Elect Donald J. Trump on his victory.
As a political battle rages in Mexico over a proposal to legalize same-sex marriage, Pope Francis jumped into the fray Sunday by publicly siding with the Mexican bishops against the government.
Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump has taken credit for the resignation of a failing Mexican public official during his recent visit to that country.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto extended invitations to both major party presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but where Trump took the meeting, Clinton is now refusing to accept the neighboring country president’s invitation.
NEW YORK – “We must have that wall,” declared Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa Country, Arizona during a radio interview last night.
Mexican-born Latinos For Trump founder Marco Gutierrez told MSNBC this week that if U.S. immigration is left unchecked, Mexico’s “dominant culture” is going to result in “taco trucks on every corner.”
Give that man a Nobel Peace Prize! Donald Trump — the modern day Paul Revere — rocked the political world when he jumped into the race last year warning about the invasion across America’s southern border that politicians in both
Ann Coulter, author of the new book “In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!,” found the GOP nominee’s visit to Mexico so successful that she told SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Breitbart News Daily, “I think we can start working on the Trump transition team.”
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Senior Fellow and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton delved into Donald Trump’s visit to Mexico with SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily.
“What we’ve seen from Donald Trump today is nothing short of presidential, as he demonstrated bold leadership during his visit to Mexico,” said Sen. David A. Perdue, R.-GA, who was a successful businessman and CEO before his election in 2014.
Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” Democratic vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine took a shot at Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for his trip to Mexico a day earlier. According to Kaine, Trump’s endeavor demonstrated diplomacy wasn’t for amateurs and that Trump
Raging cartel violence, widespread corruption, human rights abuses and a tanking economy have made Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto one of the most vilified figures in that nation’s recent history.
A recent poll found Pena Nieto’s approval rating at its lowest ever with 80 percent holding a negative view of the president, Mexico’s Animal Politico reported. When the pollsters asked to rate Peña Nieto’s performance on a scale of 0-10, the average score was only 3.9 points. The trend has intensified in recent months with his approval tanking from 30 percent in April to the current low of 23.
Donald Trump heckled his rival Hillary Clinton on Wednesday evening for not going to Louisiana to visit the victims of record flooding and for not going to Mexico to meet with Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Wednesday in Mexico City, just hours before he was set to deliver a speech on immigration in Phoenix, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump made a joint appearance with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto following an hour-long meeting. Transcript as follows:
Donald Trump and Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto met in Mexico City, Mexico on Wednesday afternoon and issued joint statements at a press conference, where Trump declared each country has a right to build a wall on its border.
Trump re-framed the entire discussion about the border. By saying that the payment for the wall was a topic for later discussion, Trump implied that there was agreement about the wall itself — and President Nieto did not contradict him.
It has now been 270 days since Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton held a press conference. Clinton emerged from a series of private fundraisers in the Hamptons to make a rare public appearance today.
The Washington Post is the latest mainstream media publication to declare Donald Trump’s visit to Mexico on Wednesday to be a disaster — in advance. In an article titled “Donald Trump’s high-risk, low-reward trip to Mexico is sort of baffling,” the Post‘s Philip
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had not even left yet for his visit to Mexico on Wednesday morning when the mainstream media began declaring it a failure.
Republican nominee for president Donald J. Trump is making a brief trip to meet top government officials in Mexico on Wednesday, just prior to his anticipated speech on immigration at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Donald Trump says he is willing to meet with Mexico’s president, despite prior hostile invective from the leader of the country that has sent an abundance of illegal immigrants into the United States.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Tuesday that he is willing to meet with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — whom he earlier likened to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Sunday, on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said there is “no way” Mexico is paying to build a wall along its border with the Untied States as presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has proposed. Nieto said, “There
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto responded to a question about Donald Trump by urging America to support openness and free trade instead of trying to isolate themselves from other countries. He criticized the tone of “isolationism and destruction” that was taking root around the world.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton has claimed that Mexico’s corruption and scandal-plagued President Enrique Peña Nieto is America’s friend. The same president that has been accused by Mexican media of taking cartel money for his campaign while the country continues to see rising levels of violence, criminal impunity, and smuggling.
On Friday, Uber launched UberPassport, a first-of-its-kind cross-border transportation service that will take passengers on a one-way trip from San Diego as far east as Mexicali, which is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California, and also to Tijuana.
An in-depth investigation has revealed that through the use of shell companies, members of the Juarez Cartel financed the political campaign of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. The cartel members appear to have also used government programs to launder money and profit form their networks of contacts.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has acknowledged the urgency of securing drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán by asking Mexican officials to accelerate Guzmán’s extradition proceedings.
On October 24, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto toured areas in southwest Mexico affected by Hurricane Patricia. The hurricane’s 200-mph winds at landfall and accompanying torrential rains left surprisingly little damage in her wake.
The Mexican government continues to claim progress in all areas despite its failing economy and failed security strategy. Mexico’s economy continues to be in a downward spiral and the security conditions of that country continue to be alarming.
