{"id":292201,"date":"2017-01-29T05:02:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T04:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-repeats-ultimatums-to-mexico-after-call-with-pena-nieto\/"},"modified":"2017-01-29T05:02:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T04:02:05","slug":"trump-repeats-ultimatums-to-mexico-after-call-with-pena-nieto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-repeats-ultimatums-to-mexico-after-call-with-pena-nieto\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump repeats ultimatums to Mexico after call with Pe\u00f1a Nieto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Trump repeats ultimatums to Mexico after call with Pe\u00f1a Nieto<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Eric London<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 January 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The governments of Mexico and the US announced that presidents Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto and Donald Trump spoke for an hour on the telephone yesterday, the day after the Mexican president cancelled a state visit to Washington scheduled for January 31.<\/p>\n<p>Though Trump said the discussion was \u201cvery, very friendly\u201d and an official statement from the Mexican government called the conversation \u201cconstructive and productive,\u201d initial reports of the call indicate that Trump did not move an inch on his plan to build a wall and force Mexico to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>Following the call, the Mexican government announced that \u201cthe presidents also agreed for now not to publicly discuss this controversial issue.\u201d This face-saving measure on Pe\u00f1a Nieto\u2019s part was not even mentioned in the US government\u2019s communiqu\u00e9 and in all likelihood will not be honored. The Mexican government is hoping to conceal from the public its efforts to work out a deal with Trump to benefit the Mexican bourgeoisie at the expense of Mexican workers.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s aggressive behavior toward Mexico in recent days has thrown bilateral relations into their greatest crisis in decades. In an underreported development this week, Trump also announced that the White House would publish a weekly list of immigrants accused of committing crimes, a tactic aimed at whipping up anti-immigrant hysteria and appropriated from the Nazi press of the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>At a joint press conference with UK Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday afternoon, Trump again threatened Mexico with trade war and an immigration crackdown: \u201cMexico has out negotiated us and beat us to a pulp. They have made us look foolish,\u201d he said. \u201cThe border is soft and weak,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/01\/28\/mexi-j28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Trump repeats ultimatums to Mexico after call with Pe\u00f1a Nieto By Eric London 28 January 2017 The governments of Mexico and the US announced that presidents Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto and Donald Trump spoke for an hour on the telephone yesterday, the day after the Mexican president cancelled a state visit to Washington scheduled for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-292201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}