Trump Threatens Pena Nieto If Mexico Does Not Pay The Wall

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The President of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, told the White House on Thursday that he will not attend the meeting he had scheduled with his new US counterpart, Donald Trump, after the latest tweets in which he insisted that the southern neighbor will pay the wall at the border, the AP agency reported.

The US president signed a decree on Wednesday to start the investigations for the erection of a wall that separates the two countries and insisted in his first television interview after his inauguration that Mexico will reimburse, in one way or another, the cost of the work.

Before canceling the meeting, Peña Nieto had issued a video statement in which he flatly denied that Mexico was going to pay. “Far from uniting, it divides us. Mexico does not believe in walls. I have said it over and over again: 'Mexico will not pay any wall.'”

The tycoon's response was immediate and, as always, it was through his favorite social network.

“The United States has a deficit of wealth with Mexico. It has been an agreement that benefits one party from the beginning of NAFTA with massive numbers and lost jobs and companies, wrote Trump.

"If Mexico is not willing to pay for the much-needed wall, then we had better cancel the planned meeting," he concluded.

Shortly before, Peña Nieto shared another message addressed to his northern neighbor. Let us reaffirm our friendship with the people of the United States and the will to reach agreements with their government. Agreements in favor of Mexicans”.