The U.S.-Mexico Relationship Is About to Get Weirder
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the incoming president, is a nationalist and a populist—just like Trump.
by Andrés Martinez
Nov 29, 2018
3 minutes
Updated at 2:39 p.m. ET on November 30, 2018.
The president of the United States is threatening to close the border with Mexico to prevent the entry of Central Americans seeking asylum. He is also threatening to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t finance his border wall. All this in the same week that he intends to sign a new, revised North American Free Trade Agreement, rebranded as the USMCA.
It’s a confusing juxtaposition for Mexicans tired of President Donald Trump’s bombastic rhetoric as well as for ardent Trump supporters and Fox News viewers country.
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