Mexico's new president: 'Nobody will threaten us' with a wall
Source: The Hill
BY RAFAEL BERNAL - 08/06/18 01:47 PM EDT
The winner of Mexico's presidential election told a group of engineers Monday that the country will not be threatened under his administration, in a thinly veiled reference to President Trump's trade and border policies, according to Reforma newspaper.
"The purpose is that Mexico will become a power and that the correlation of strength will change, nobody will threaten us that they'll close the borders or that they'll militarize the border, that a wall will be built," said Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who's also known as AMLO, according to the newspaper.
López Obrador is expected to be officially named president-elect Wednesday, and sworn in as president on Dec. 1.
He won the July 1 election with 53 percent of the vote, a massive landslide by Mexican standards, where no candidate had come close to the 50 percent mark since the country's democratic transition.
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gordianot
(15,242 posts)Please do not give him more ideas such as militarize the border.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)In stead of a nation that opens it arms to the oppressed regardless of their religion, nationality or color, we are being cast as a nation of red-neck racists that dispise anyone who isn't white.
gordianot
(15,242 posts)There is irrepairable damage left in the wake of this monster.