Pena Nieto Says Mexico's Ready to Work with Trump, But Won't Pay for Wall Agence France-Presse
go to original November 9, 2016

Freshly printed newspapers with the headline reading "Trump surprises" are seen at a conveyer belt at a printer of the local daily El Diario of Juarez in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, November 9, 2016. (Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez)

Update: Mexican President Already Has Plans to Meet Trump to Set `New Phase` in Ties (Zee News)

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said Wednesday he was ready to work with Donald Trump but the country’s foreign minister reiterated the government’s refusal to pay for his planned border wall.

Trump’s victory shocked Mexicans, who were angered by the Republican billionaire’s description of migrants as rapists and drug dealers.

His defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s election caused the peso and the Mexican stock market to plunge due to fears that Trump would upend economic ties with the country.

“I congratulate the US on its electoral process and reiterate to @realDonaldTrump my willingness to work together in favor of bilateral relations,” Pena Nieto said on Twitter.



...Trump has vowed to make Mexico pay for a massive border wall - which is estimated to cost several billions of dollars - and to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

“Paying for a wall is not part of our vision,” Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu of Mexico told the Televisa network.

But she said the government has had a “daily fluid dialogue” with the Trump campaign and that the two countries were “not starting from zero.”

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