After just two weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency, Mexico’s relations with the US have reached a new low point. Following President Trump’s decision to sign an executive order calling for the building of a physical wall along the US-Mexico border to stop illegal immigration, and after Trump reiterated his intention to make Mexico pay for the wall, President Enrique Peña Nieto decided to cancel a scheduled visit to Washington DC to meet the new president. With Trump showing no signs of going back on some of his other anti-Mexican electoral pledges, including seeking a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), the Peña Nieto administration is trying to establish a working relationship with its Trump counterpart to salvage was has traditionally been a ‘strategic partnership’. End of preview - This article contains approximately 2021 words.
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