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Mexican president: Trump comments hurt US-Mexico relations Mexican president: Trump language like that of Hitler
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MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto says he thinks comments by Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump hurt U.S.-Mexico relations. MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto compared the language of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to that of dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in an interview published Monday, and said it has hurt U.S.-Mexico relations.
Trump has pledged to build a wall along the two countries’ borders. He has also said Mexican immigrants bring crime and drugs to the U.S. and are “rapists.” Asked about Trump, Pena Nieto complained to the Excelsior newspaper about “these strident expressions that seek to propose very simple solutions” and said that sort of language has led to “very fateful scenes in the history of humanity”
Pena Nieto said in an interview with the newspaper El Universal published Monday that he condemns Trump’s comments. “That’s the way Mussolini arrived and the way Hitler arrived,” Pena Nieto said.
In his words, “It appears to me that (Trump’s comments) hurt the relationship we have sought with the United States.” Pena Nieto until now had avoided direct comments on Trump, who has pledged to build a wall along the two countries’ borders. Trump also has said Mexican immigrants bring crime and drugs to the U.S. and are “rapists.”
But the Mexican president says his country will try to work with whoever is elected president of the United States. But as the New York businessman has built a lead in the GOP primary, current and former Mexican officials have begun to publicly express alarm. Former Presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon also have alluded to Hitler in describing Trump.
Pena Nieto until now has avoided direct comments on Trump, and said he would be “absolutely respectful” of the U.S. political process. In the interview with Excelsior, Pena Nieto said he would worth with whoever eventually wins this year’s U.S. presidential election and to maintain a climate “of mutual respect and joint agreements.”
In another interview published Monday, with the newspaper El Universal, the president said he would be “absolutely respectful” of the U.S. political process, but said, “It appears to me that (Trump’s comments) hurt the relationship we have sought with the United States.”
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