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America Age > Blog > World > ‘América Mexicana’: Mexico’s president responds to Trump with renaming of her personal
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‘América Mexicana’: Mexico’s president responds to Trump with renaming of her personal

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Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, has responded to Donald Trump’s proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico because the Gulf of America with a counter-proposal to rename North America.

Standing earlier than a worldwide map in her each day press briefing, Sheinbaum proposed dryly that the continent must be referred to as “América Mexicana”, or “Mexican America”, as a result of an 1814 founding doc that preceded Mexico’s structure referred to it that manner.

“That sounds nice, no?” she added with a sarcastic tone. She additionally famous that the ocean basin bounded by the US Gulf coast, Mexico’s jap states and the island of Cuba has been referred to as the Gulf of Mexico since 1607.

Trump, who can be sworn in for a second time period on 20 January, stated on Tuesday he deliberate to rename the Gulf as “the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring”.

‘Why do not we name it Mexican America?’: Claudia Sheinbaum hits again at Trump – video

“It’s appropriate. And Mexico has to stop allowing millions of people to pour into our country,” he stated.

He additionally claimed that the US’s southern neighbour was run by drug cartels, to which Sheinbaum gave a terse response: “In Mexico, the people rule.”

The change has began to reply a bigger query lingering over the bilateral relationship between the 2 regional powers: how would newly elected Sheinbaum deal with Trump’s strong-handed diplomatic method, in addition to guarantees of mass deportations and devastating taxes on buying and selling companions like Mexico?

Sheinbaum’s predecessor and political mentor Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Amlo) – who hailed from the same pressure of sophistication populism as Trump, though he leaned left – was in a position to construct a relationship with Trump as an ally, and his authorities started to dam folks from migrating north below US strain, a boon to Trump.

Nevertheless it was unclear whether or not Mexico’s first feminine president, a scientist and leftist missing the folksy populism that rocketed López Obrador into energy, would be capable of construct the identical relationship.

Whereas Wednesday’s joke shortly ricocheted throughout social media feeds, it additionally set the tone for what a Sheinbaum-Trump relationship might appear to be within the coming years.

“Humor can be a good tactic. It projects strength, which is what Trump responds to. It was probably the right choice on this issue,” stated Brian Winter, vice-president of the New York-based Council of the Americas. “Although, President Sheinbaum knows it won’t work on everything – Trump and his administration will demand serious engagement from Mexico on the big issues of immigration, drugs and trade.”

Sheinbaum’s remarks come after different stern however collaborative responses concerning Trump’s proposals.

On Trump’s pitch to slap 25% tariffs on Mexican imports, Sheinbaum warned that if the brand new US administration imposes tariffs on Mexico, her administration will reply with related measures. She stated any type of tax was “not acceptable and would cause inflation and job losses for the United States and Mexico”.

She’s taken a extra concessionary tone on immigration, falling in keeping with years of Mexican efforts to dam folks from migrating north.

After initially saying her authorities would push the Trump administration to deport folks immediately again to their very own nations, in January she stated Mexico can be open to accepting deportees from different nations, however that Mexico might restrict deportees to sure nationalities or request compensation.

With reporting by Related Press and Agence France-Press

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