Scenes from a Mexico City Bar the Night Donald Trump Won the Presidency Kate Linthicum - The Los Angeles Times
go to original November 9, 2016

American expats in Mexico worried post-Trump victory (Reuters)

The Mexican dive bar was dimly lit. And as the results of the U.S. presidential election began to roll in, it seemed to grow considerably darker.

Donald Trump was winning. The way Luz Enco saw it, that meant Mexico and Mexicans were losing.

“It feels like that they don’t want us,” said Enco, 33, a Mexico City real estate agent. “It’s a sign that America is not a place for us.”

“I can’t believe it,” said her friend Adriana Garcia, 30. “It’s like we are officially not welcome in the U.S.”

The whole world was riveted by the unexpected outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election, in which Trump upset Democrat Hillary Clinton despite polls that predicted otherwise.  

But there is perhaps no country besides Mexico where the results felt so personal.

In his year-and-a-half-long campaign, Trump threatened to withdraw from free trade agreements and cut off remittances to Mexico. He vowed to deport masses of immigrants in the U.S. illegally and to build a towering border wall.

The Mexican peso plummeted upon news of a Trump win as the country’s finance officials scheduled emergency meetings.

At the bar located on the first floor of an old American Legion meeting hall in Mexico City, crowds of Mexicans and their American expatriate friends slumped in their seats and shook their heads in disbelief.

“I’ve never been more ashamed,” said Michael Snyder, a 28-year-old American writer, shortly after CNN called Pennsylvania in Trump’s favor. “I don’t know how to internalize this.”

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