Against Trump and Peña Nieto
February 9, 2017
Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 25 to begin immediate construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, repeating once again that Mexico would have to pay for it. Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto canceled a planned visit to the White House on January 31. After Trump's order, the (PRT), the Mexican section of the Fourth International, published the following statement, translated into English for theInternational Viewpoint website.
Donald Trump meets with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto (left) in 2016
AFTER A dramatic increase in fuel, electricity and water prices throughout the country and a month of uninterrupted, massive protests across the country that have deepened the crisis of legitimacy--which is increasingly a political crisis--of Mexico's oligarchic regime, we are now beginning to see the first steps of the new, extreme right, xenophobic, macho, racist and anti-Mexican administration in the White House. This can only bring further complications, contradictions and possibilities of struggle to the Mexican political scene.