Mexico Front-Runner Rips Trump, Can't Wait to Redo Nafta
- Trump ‘speaks very loudly,’ needs firm response: Lopez Obrador
- His nationalism is resonating in a country furious at U.S.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the early frontrunner in next year's presidential election in Mexico, sat down with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker Tuesday in New York and blasted President Trump's 'campaign of hatred' against Mexican immigrants. (Source: Bloomberg)
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto may be taking a cautious stance in his public comments on President Donald Trump, but the man who currently figures to be his successor is showing no such restraint.
In a 90-minute interview Tuesday in New York, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the radical outsider who’s the early frontrunner in next year’s election, blasted Trump’s “campaign of hatred” against Mexican immigrants, accused him of violating human rights laws, called his border wall plan a “propaganda” tool and said he couldn’t wait to handle the renegotiation of Nafta himself.