Mexico City. After former President Donald Trump declared over the weekend that he forced the Mexican government to deploy 28,000 soldiers along the border to contain migration under the threat of imposing tariffs, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador avoided responding. directly and considered that the American did not disrespect him.
Questioned about Trump’s comments, AMLO replied that he was not going to allow any party or candidate from the neighboring country “to use Mexico as a piñata (…) they are going to have to treat us with respect as we do,” although He stated that he likes the Republican and that the understanding during his term was good.
He also urged Latinos in the United States not to vote in the November midterm elections for politicians who have “mistreated” them.
For his part, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Marcelo Ebrard, defended from his Twitter account the patriotism of the Mexican president and pointed out that Trump’s statements are from a man “in campaign agitating the anti-Mexicanism that characterizes him.”
“In this government we are patriots and we have nothing to be ashamed of. Very proud to serve Mexico and be part of President López Obrador’s team,” he wrote.