Trumpsky harms historic US-Mexico relations -- again!
[I just commented to a good LJ friend about what The Donald did this past week to damage our vital relationship with Mexico. It occurs to me that the comment might be of interest to others among you longtime readers. So here it is.]
I know a good deal about our sensitive southern neighbor, having worked in Mexico City for three years at the beginning of my career -- and then lately as a consultant to a large corporation operating there. The Mexico-US relationship is fraught with historical dangers: to treat them cavalierly, as The Don (and both his son Erik and his son-in-law Jared) have done goes against everything that thoughtful Americans have sought to do to mollify them over many years.
I'll note another historical fact, namely the longstanding Russian interest in that neighbor. Their Mexico City embassy is substantial, long dedicated to fomenting anti-US sentiment there. I suspect that one of Putin's aims, in foisting Trumpsky* onto the American people, is to undercut US-Mexican relations.
Why else did Jared and Erik conspire to get that meeting -- in the middle of the campaign -- with President Peña Nieto? (The September meeting, incldentally, damaged Peña Nieto's Finance Minister Luis Videgaray** -- who had set it up and was forced out of the government a week afterward.)
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* It was fairly prescient of me to nickname him thusly; I began using it in mid-campaign. At that point, before the Russian hacking/hijacking of our election had been fully substantiated by the US intelligence community, the Russia connection was only dimly recognized.
** I see that Videgaray may be brought BACK by Peña Nieto -- http://www.businessinsider.com/r-mexico-president-to-name-fallen-finance-minister-as-foreign-minister-sources-2017-1
I know a good deal about our sensitive southern neighbor, having worked in Mexico City for three years at the beginning of my career -- and then lately as a consultant to a large corporation operating there. The Mexico-US relationship is fraught with historical dangers: to treat them cavalierly, as The Don (and both his son Erik and his son-in-law Jared) have done goes against everything that thoughtful Americans have sought to do to mollify them over many years.
I'll note another historical fact, namely the longstanding Russian interest in that neighbor. Their Mexico City embassy is substantial, long dedicated to fomenting anti-US sentiment there. I suspect that one of Putin's aims, in foisting Trumpsky* onto the American people, is to undercut US-Mexican relations.
Why else did Jared and Erik conspire to get that meeting -- in the middle of the campaign -- with President Peña Nieto? (The September meeting, incldentally, damaged Peña Nieto's Finance Minister Luis Videgaray** -- who had set it up and was forced out of the government a week afterward.)
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* It was fairly prescient of me to nickname him thusly; I began using it in mid-campaign. At that point, before the Russian hacking/hijacking of our election had been fully substantiated by the US intelligence community, the Russia connection was only dimly recognized.
** I see that Videgaray may be brought BACK by Peña Nieto -- http://www.businessinsider.com/r-mexico-president-to-name-fallen-finance-minister-as-foreign-minister-sources-2017-1