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发帖数: 3 | 2 Mexico puts U.S. ties under review as Trump stirs new tensions
Dave Graham
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico said on Monday it will review all forms of
cooperation with the United States, including efforts to combat powerful
drug cartels, in a sign of mounting frustration over President Donald Trump
’s antagonistic attitude toward the country.
FILE PHOTO - U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Mexico's
President Enrique Pena Nieto during the their bilateral meeting at the G20
summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
President Enrique Pena Nieto gave the order to his cabinet in a meeting on
Sunday after a week of heightened bilateral tensions, during which he
rebuked Trump for repeatedly stoking conflict and chafing against Mexico.
Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said the review would cover all aspects of
the relationship, ranging from border security and migration to trade and
the fight against drug gangs.
Mexico has long been identified as the leading transshipment point for
illicit drugs entering the U.S. market.
Noting that no decision had yet been made to suspend or reduce collaboration
, Videgaray said the government had to act given the degree of public
support that had been expressed in Mexico for Pena Nieto’s tougher stance.
“The key thing here is that it’s not just words. This stance needs to have
practical consequences,” said Videgaray, who as recently as February had
said Mexico’s relationship with the United States was closer than it had
been with previous governments.
The review will last “a few weeks” and take place under the aegis of the
foreign ministry, Videgaray said. After that, Pena Nieto would make
decisions based on the “very public, notorious differences we have today
with the United States,” he said.
White House spokeswoman Helen Aguirre Ferre said the U.S. administration
welcomed the review of cooperation and “continues to do the same with
Mexico.” The two nations were working together on numerous issues of mutual
interest, she added.
“President Trump looks forward to working with the president of Mexico and
other leaders of the Western Hemisphere who share our democratic values and
celebrate the promotion of free and fair trade at the Summit of the Americas
in Peru,” she said.
The summit takes place in Lima on April 13-14.
TOUGH TALK
The Mexican government’s decision was backed by opposition lawmakers, who
said it vindicated the Senate’s call last week for the government to end
cooperation on migration and security with the United States in response to
Trump deploying the National Guard on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Donald Trump has to understand that he must stop threatening, blackmailing
and lying in the relationship if he wants Mexico to carry on cooperating on
things that matter to him,” said Laura Rojas, head of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee and a member of the opposition National Action Party.
After Trump set out his National Guard plans, Pena Nieto chided him in
unusually forthright terms, telling him not to take out his domestic policy
“frustration” on Mexico.
The border plan took shape after Trump accused Mexico of doing next to “
nothing” to stop illegal immigrants reaching the United States when news
broke of a “caravan” of Central Americans organized by a human rights
group moving north.
Trump again threatened to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement (
NAFTA), and the caravan quickly began dispersing when Mexican authorities
moved in to register the migrants.
Trump, who launched his election campaign in 2015 by calling Mexicans who
come to the United States rapists, has caused profound anger in Mexico with
his repeated broadsides on trade and migration, as well as his plans for a
southern border wall.
The latest Trump spat comes as Mexico, the United States and Canada are at a
crucial phase in talks to rework NAFTA. The Mexican government has long
said the renegotiation should be couched within a review of the entire
relationship.
Many Mexicans would like to see the government take a tougher line with the
U.S. president. The Mexican public is far more united in its antipathy
toward Trump than it is in support of its own leading politicians.
Mexico’s next presidential election takes place on July 1, and the main
candidates have all upbraided Trump for his digs against the country. The
candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is in third
place in most polls.
Pena Nieto, who cannot stand for re-election, has one of the lowest approval
ratings of any modern Mexican president, but tends to benefit from taking a
firm stand against Trump.
Despite heated public rhetoric, some senior Mexican officials say privately
they believe Trump’s Twitter attacks in the past week were more intended to
fire up his voter base and attack his domestic opponents than hurt Mexico.
Videgaray said NAFTA talks would continue at the Summit of the Americas,
which government officials responsible for the renegotiation are expected to
attend. |
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