Mexican Officials Rethink Relationship with US - and Wonder What's Next Tara McKelvey - BBC News
go to original December 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton, shown in Mexico City in 2014, was expected to win the election (Ronaldo Schemidt)

Foreign officials are looking closely at their relationships with the White House - and wondering how they'll change in the coming months. But nobody's as worried as officials from Mexico City.

Recently, a New York City panel on Mexican infrastructure, featuring Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, Mexico's secretary of communications and transportation, and other officials from Mexico City was abruptly cancelled.

The panel had been planned long before the election, when most anticipated a very different outcome.

"This is quite a tense moment," said Shannon O'Neil, a Mexico expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. "It's very hard to go out and talk about infrastructure."

Cabinet members in Mexico City sent a letter to Foreign Affairs, which was hosting the conference at the Council on Foreign Relations, and said they were cancelling because of "unforeseen circumstances", a Mexican official told me.

The Mexican officials didn't say anything in their letter about the election of Donald Trump. But his victory played into their decision to call off the event.

Michael Camunez, a former Obama White House official who was planning to speak at the event, said he understood the reasons. "It's a time of uncertainty," he said.

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