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Mexico & Nafta - February 2017 (ISSN 1741-444X)
Adjusting to new reality of relations with US
After just two weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency, Mexico’s relations with the US have reached a new low point. Following President Trump’s decision to sign an executive order calling for the building of a physical wall along the US-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration, and after Trump reiterated his intention to make Mexico pay for the wall, President Enrique Peña Nieto decided to cancel a scheduled visit to Washington DC to meet the new president. With Trump showing no signs of going back on some of his other anti-Mexican electoral pledges, including seeking a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), the Peña Nieto administration is trying to establish a working relationship with its Trump counterpart to salvage was has traditionally been a ‘strategic partnership’.
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