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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Despicable". Mexico President Obrador on Gov Abbott's costly border checks.
https://samsung.tribunecontentagency.com/2022/04/19/mexicos-lopez-obrador-says-abbotts-costly-border-checks-that-snarled-traffic-were-despicable/Mexicos Lopez Obrador says Abbotts costly border checks that snarled traffic were despicable.
EL PASO, Texas Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday slammed Texas Governor Greg Abbott over his stepped up inspections of commercial trucks at the border, which for 10 days disrupted trade and the supply chain between both countries.
Legally they can do it, but its a very despicable way to act,[/b] Lopez Obrador said at his regular daily news conference, known as the mañanera. I would say its chicanadas (half-baked) antics from the state government.
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Abbott, who is up for re-election in November, agreed to end the additional inspections on commercial vehicles after the governors of four Mexican states Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas announced they had reached security agreements with Texas.
Lopez Obrador said the Mexican governors and Abbott did not have the authority to do so.
With all due respect, states have no legal authority to do agreements with a foreign country, the president said. Instead of thinking and I say this respectfully How will I fix the problem of inflation? He is politicizing and even violating international rights.
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Texas lost an estimated $470 million a day due to the slowdowns. He said his latest study was carried out as a public service and further details will be made public this week.
Mexico is Texas No. 1 trading partner. In 2021, there was more than $661 billion in trade between the U.S. and Mexico,
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Lopez Obrador dismissed Abbotts actions as politics.
I think the governor of Texas aspires to be a (2024 presidential) candidate for the Republican Party, and so he thinks that with this action he will win support, although its also damaging to the economy, Lopez Obrador said. The purpose is to create conflict . something that Mexicans in Texas know all well. But we will not be provoked.
Its great that it has been resolved, he added. I just hope (Texas) they will not act this way again. It doesnt help them. .How can a person who aspires to be president of a great nation like the United States act this way? I just hope he doesnt get mad, that he doesnt lose his sense of humor.
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"Despicable". Mexico President Obrador on Gov Abbott's costly border checks. (Original Post)
Budi
Apr 2022
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)1. Costly and damaging in many ways to the people of both nations, and Canada.
The concept of government of, by and for the people probably isn't even worth a tepid chuckle for an old joke to those who've taken over the Republican Party.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)2. But aren't they both wannabe despots? nt