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2019-03-31 Caribbean-Latin America
Mexico says it won't react to Trump threats over border
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Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-31 01:44|| || Front Page|| [10326 views ]  Top

#1 Cut their foreign aid yesterday and impose a 10% 'withholding' on all money order remittances to Mexico. Let's see what they say then.
Posted by Raj 2019-03-31 05:54||   2019-03-31 05:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard wrote on Twitter: "Mexico doesn’t act based on threats."

And our gov't shouldn't be making any threats, just calculated and decisive actions !
Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-31 07:27||   2019-03-31 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Just make sure we don't interfere with Wells Fargo subsidiaries in their [Mexican] drug cartel money laundering "services".
Posted by DooDahMan 2019-03-31 07:30||   2019-03-31 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Give a day's notice every so often and watch cross-border tourism and trade dry up. Mexico will learn not to fuck with us
Posted by Frank G 2019-03-31 08:04||   2019-03-31 08:04|| Front Page Top

#5 They will react when Monterrey industrial plants go idle. They will react when the cross border tourist spots go dormant. He needs to threaten remittances and that will stop this all. If he bans the cash transfer home, the country will starve to death.
Posted by 49 Pan 2019-03-31 10:41||   2019-03-31 10:41|| Front Page Top

#6  He also said the Spanish-speaking country is "the best neighbor" the U.S. could have,

True. When it comes to failed states, Mexico is better than most. We could have Somalia on our southern border.
Posted by SteveS 2019-03-31 10:52||   2019-03-31 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 ...with the cartels, don't count that out yet.
Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-31 11:19||   2019-03-31 11:19|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm afraid a lot of that cartel money corrupts our own politicians just like Mexico's. Close the damn border. Seal it up tight and we'll see how cocky AMLO is then.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-31 14:10||   2019-03-31 14:10|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Angoluse Snoter7633 2019-03-31 16:18||   2019-03-31 16:18|| Front Page Top

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