Opposition Leaders Urge President Pena Nieto to Scrap Upcoming US Meeting Agence France-Presse
go to original January 25, 2017

Update: Trump Summit with Mexico's Pena Nieto Still On, ‘For Now’ (EWN)

Mexican opposition figures urged President Enrique Pena Nieto today to cancel next week's meeting with US President Donald Trump to protest his demand of payment for a border wall.

"The announcement of @realDonaldTrump's wall before the visit of @EPN (Pena Nieto) is an affront to Mexico," Margarita Zavala, a potential 2018 presidential candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), wrote on Twitter.

"The visit must be reconsidered," Zavala said hours before Trump's announcement, adding in Spanish a hashtag that translates to "no to the wall."

Trump signed two immigration-related decrees today, including an order to begin work to "build a large physical barrier on the southern border," according to the White House.

The US leader has vowed to make Mexico reimburse the cost of building the massive barrier.

The move came as Mexico's foreign and economy ministers were in Washington to prepare Pena Nieto's own visit on January 31.

...Senator Armando Rios Piter, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), called the wall announcement a "hostile act" that should prompt Pena Nieto to scrap his trip.

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