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Weekly Report - 12 January 2017 (WR-17-01)

MEXICO: The Videgaray enigma

The sequence of events is, to say the least, puzzling. On 31 August 2016 the then US presidential candidate, Donald Trump, paid a highly hyped one-day visit to Mexico. The handling of that visit was widely seen as a diplomatic humiliation for the country. An embarrassed President Enrique Peña Nieto responded by dismissing his finance minister, Luis Videgaray, who was identified as the main architect of the Trump visit. But here is the strange part. Fast-forward to just four months later: Trump, now having won the elections, is set to take office; Peña Nieto has once more turned to Videgaray for help on how to handle Trump, appointing him as the new Mexican foreign minister.

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