Trump Charges against Mexico, Anteroom of Latin America

Without defining today his policies towards Latin America and the Caribbean, the president of the United States, Donald Trump continues announcing measures that go against the country with the southern region bordering the continent: Mexico.

It is the closest trading partner and destination of thousands of US investment dollars.

But commercial and economic relations with Mexico also give life to thousands of companies and many more workers in the United States.

Still, Trump put everything on the table for the Mexican president to cancel the meeting scheduled for January 31 at the White House, where trade, migration, security and border issues would be discussed.

In this, the new occupant of the White House went ahead by signing an executive order to build a wall that already exists, longer, and with the deployment of thousands of immigration agents, precisely when the delegates of Peña Nieto were traveling to Washington.

It is a sovereign decision, but Trump added that Mexico should pay for the border, despite the fact that the number of Mexican migrants has declined in recent years, contrary to that of Central Americans and other regions.

Peña Nieto deplored the announcement of the construction of the wall, and refused to pay for it, which, in the end, led to cancel the Mexico-USA summit.

That is not the end of the story; the new occupant of the White House announced shortly afterwards that he plans to impose 20 percent taxes on imports from Mexico.

Bad news for the structural reforms promoted by Peña Nieto, which have foreign investment among its main columns, including the main producers of cars with plants here (several from the USA) and export to the northern neighbor.

Also for the price of the peso against the dollar and the indexes of the Mexican Stock Exchange.

There is a saying here that says: when the United States sneezes, Mexico suffers from pneumonia. There is also another: Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States. It may be an exaggeration, but it illustrates the present and future times.