Mexico's new president: 'Nobody will threaten us' with a wall

Source: The Hill


BY RAFAEL BERNAL - 08/06/18 01:47 PM EDT

The winner of Mexico's presidential election told a group of engineers Monday that the country will not be threatened under his administration, in a thinly veiled reference to President Trump's trade and border policies, according to Reforma newspaper.

"The purpose is that Mexico will become a power and that the correlation of strength will change, nobody will threaten us that they'll close the borders or that they'll militarize the border, that a wall will be built," said Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who's also known as AMLO, according to the newspaper.

López Obrador is expected to be officially named president-elect Wednesday, and sworn in as president on Dec. 1.

He won the July 1 election with 53 percent of the vote, a massive landslide by Mexican standards, where no candidate had come close to the 50 percent mark since the country's democratic transition.

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