MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) — Protesters in Mexico City used boxes to build a makeshift wall outside the US embassy on Friday (January 20) to protest plans from US President Donald Trump to build a border wall.
He has vowed to move fast on construction which he claims its southern neighbor will pay for.
But protesters in Mexico disagreed.
“We are against the construction of the wall and we’re marching because the Mexican government has not faced up to Donald Trump’s threats like the people have wanted. The (Trump) government says that Mexicans are going to pay for the building of the wall. What Mexicans are saying to Trump is that we do not agree with the construction of the wall,” said this unidentified protester.
Trump is also expected to take executive action on renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that underpins Mexico’s economy “very shortly,” his spokesperson has reported.
In his campaign, Trump derided Mexicans as rapists and murderers and vowed to build a wall along the U.S. southern border to keep them out.
More than three quarters of Mexicans have a bad or very bad opinion of the U.S. President, according to a poll of 600 people conducted earlier this month by Gabinete de Comunicacion Estrategica.
