From tightening to reconciliation | Trump defended the …

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, yesterday defended the agreement concluded last Friday with Mexico and announced that the pact included additional elements that had not yet been announced. The agreement between the Republican leader and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador intervened after Trump threatened to impose a 5% tariff on all products from Mexico, saying his neighbor South was not doing enough migratory flows that cross their territory on American soil. According to economists, this measure would have been catastrophic for both countries. The Democratic opponent severely criticized the New York magnate for threatening his relations with Mexico, his main trading partner.

"Previously, Mexico was not cooperating at the border, and I am fully confident, especially after talking with its president yesterday, that he will cooperate a lot and that he will do the job well. ", wrote Trump in his social network account. Twitter, in response to The New York Times newspaper, said that some parts of the pact had been agreed to several months ago, downplaying the president's alleged success. "However, if for some unknown reason there is not (Mexican cooperation), we can always go back to our previous, and very lucrative, tariff setting, but I do not think it will be necessary. ", he added.

Despite the fact that the US president has left the door open to threaten tariffs again, his Mexican counterpart has been firm in refusing to retaliate with Mexico with these taxes in the future. "As a leader and representative of the Mexican state, I can not allow anyone to attack the economy of our country," López Obrador said Saturday.

In his usual tweets, Trump also said: "Some important things have been agreed that were not announced in the announcement of Friday, one in particular, which will be announced at the right time". The White House however has not given more details on what this unprecedented goal of agreement might be. Mexico's ambbadador to the United States, Martha Bárcena, said yesterday that discussions between technical teams will continue almost every week, so that new announcements can take place within 90 days. "(What was announced on Friday) is a common statement of principles, which provides us with a basis for the roadmap we will have to follow in the coming months in terms of migration," Bárcena explained in an interview with CBS News. . Bárcena said the goal was to bring US immigration numbers back to 2018 levels and predicted that there will be results in a relatively short period of time, he said. declared, a month or a month and a half, thanks to the deployment of about 6,000 troops of the National Guard of Mexico on the border of that country with Guatemala. But the ambbadador has not confirmed that under the agreement reached on Friday, Mexico has agreed to immediately start buying large quantities of agricultural products in the United States, as the # 39, Trump had badured in a tweet this weekend.

The Democratic opposition in the United States has criticized the White House tenant for using the threat of tariffs to remove Mexico's commitments to immigration. "The world is fed up and what I get tired of, is a president who is constantly fighting to make war on his allies," said the senator and candidate for the presidential inauguration from the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders. CNN network.

Beto O 'Rourke, a former congressman from the border town of El Paso, Texas, who is also seeking to get the Democratic nomination, has questioned, like Sanders, the so-called achievements of Trump. "These are concessions that Mexico has already made, in some cases a few months ago, maybe they have speeded up the schedule, but in general, the president has managed nothing, except to put imperiled the most important trade relations between the United States. "