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MCALLEN, RGV Robert S. Kaplan, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, is concerned that some of the rhetoric coming out of the United States may result in Mexico electing an anti-American president next year.
Mexicans go to the polls on July 1, 2018. According to some polls, leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who leads the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) party, is the front-runner ahead of next years presidential election.
Kaplan gave his views on anti-Mexican rhetoric, trade with Mexico, immigration and the value of the peso at the Border Economic Development and Entrepreneurship Symposium hosted by the Dallas Fed, UT-Rio Grande Valleys Robert C. Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship, and McAllen Chamber of Commerce. He took questions from Marie T. Mora, associate vice provost for faculty diversity at UTRGV, and from those in the audience. He also held a news conference with reporters.
Asked by Mora and renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Kaplan said: My concern is, I think it is a constructive thing for us to be leveling the playing field and renegotiating trade agreements. I think some of these other issues and the rhetoric associated with them, my fear is, when you go to Mexico, they have an election coming up in July of 2018 and I would not want to see a situation where in order to get elected president of Mexico, you need to be anti-America, anti-American.
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,134 posts)Trump is too stupid to understand this and even if it were explained to him like the 9 yr old he is, wouldnt matter.
They were mean to him, he will now do anything he can to physically destroy them.
Just like he is actively trying to do to ALL Americans who did not vote for him.
Obama did the opposite, he tried to HELP those who voted against him.
leftstreet
(36,119 posts)Mexicans like American people just fine