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Hurrah! U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has come to Miami to meet with Central American and Mexican authorities in a rare moment of Trump administration attention to Latin America. Now there are several things he could do to dispel the widespread notion that the administration has nothing but contempt for the region.
But Tillerson won’t have an easy job changing that perception, considering Trump’s repeated insults to Latin Americans.
In February, Trump called Mexican undocumented immigrants “bad hombres,” according to a transcript of his conversation with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. During the campaign, Trump said that most of the 5.7 million Mexican undocumented immigrants are “rapists” and “criminals.”
As soon as he took office, Trump vowed to go ahead with plans to build a wall along the U.S. southern border, and he scrapped the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that included Mexico, Peru, Chile and several Asian countries.
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Etiquetas: Latin America, Prosperity and Security in Central America, Rex Tillerson, Trump
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