[FinancialTimes] Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto scrambled on Thursday to control the fallout from a meeting with Donald Trump that left him looking like a pawn in the US Republican presidential candidate’s campaign over illegal immigration.
If the president had been hoping that his invitation to a man he brands a "threat" to the countries’ relations would change Mr Trump's stance over immigration -- which includes building a wall along the US-Mexico border -- then his plan failed. Hours after their meeting in Mexico City on Wednesday, Mr Trump at a speech in Arizona vowed "no amnesty" for immigrants and maintained his insistence that Mexico would pay to barricade the border if he won the White House.
"Trump did whatever he liked with Enrique Peña Nieto, who gave a brilliant demonstration of his weakness," said Sergio Aguayo, a political commentator. |