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Dollar rises against peso as Mexican finance minister resigns
Mexico Finance Minister Luis Videgaray, one of Enrique Pena Nieto’s closest advisers for more than a decade, is leaving the government in a Cabinet shakeup after the president’s popularity fell to a record low and public backlash after a meeting with Donald Trump.
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A somber-looking Pena Nieto told a news conference that Videgaray, who officials said was the architect of the visit by the Republican nominee for the November 8 US presidential election, would give way to a former finance minister, Jose Antonio Meade. The spokeswoman could not confirm that Meade would become the new finance minister.
Pena Nieto’s constituents bashed their leader for inviting the braggart candidate, even after he notoriously disparaged Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug dealers as a fledgling presidential candidate in 2015.
Despite the avalanche of criticism he has received for last Wednesday’s Trump visit, which Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz privately opposed, Peña Nieto has defended his decision and the outcome of their meeting.
“I’ve been given A-plus, including from [ABC]. for the job I did in Mexico”, Trump said. -Mexico border wall did not come up, but Mr. Pena Nieto later tweeted that he made it clear Mexico would not pay for the wall. “It was necessary to make him feel and know why Mexico does not accept his positions”.
During a joint press conference after their closed-door meeting, Trump said the issue of paying for the wall, which he has made a central one in his campaign, was not broached.
Pena Nieto came under fire for not responding to Trump’s mention of the wall during a joint news conference on August 31, something he has since sought to correct.
Hillary Clinton said in an interview in Cleveland, Ohio, with ABC News’ David Muir that Donald Trump created a “diplomatic incident” last week with his trip to Mexico.
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“In just a few hours he managed to turn his trip to Mexico into an embarrassing worldwide incident”.