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Claudia Sheinbaum opposed US President Donald Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico last Wednesday, suggesting that the US territory that was formerly part of Mexico should be called “Mexico America”.
President of Mexico The comments came after Trump made a call on Tuesday The Gulf of Mexico is about to be renamed. “The Gulf of America” and Canada becoming a US territory would threaten one of the world’s largest trade blocs.
Trump’s comments came during a free-wheeling press conference, and he denied that he wanted to use force to gain power. Greenland Or control the Panama Canal.
The president-elect, who took office in less than two weeks, has threatened to impose 25 percent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada unless his neighbors do more to stop illegal immigrants and drugs crossing the two borders. Block Free Trade Agreement, USMCA.
At a morning news conference on Wednesday, Sheinbaum said that certain US states, including California and Texas, were part of the Spanish Empire and later Mexico until it ceded the land to Washington in the 19th century.
“We’re going to call it “Mexican America,” she told reporters, showing a colonial-era map from 1607.
The leaders of Mexico and Canada are grappling with how best to respond to Trump’s aggressive rhetoric against their countries without alienating their domestic audiences.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who flew to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for dinner in late November after the tariffs were first threatened, said his country had a “snowball’s chance in hell” of becoming part of the United States. .
Earlier in the week, Conservative Premier of Ontario Doug Ford made Trump a “guideline offer” to buy Alaska and Minnesota, two US states that share a border with Canada.
In December, Ford kick off A multi-million dollar ad campaign to counter Trump’s hostility toward Canada by promoting Ontario’s economic and cultural ties to the United States.
Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said Trump’s comments “are a complete misunderstanding of what makes Canada a strong country.” “We don’t back down when we’re threatened,” he said on X.
Left-wing leader Shinbaum, who took power in October after winning the US election, has taken a more combative approach to Trump than other world leaders. She initially hinted at retaliatory tariffs against Washington, though the two have since spoken by phone and refrained from publicly disparaging each other.
Her government is preparing for mass deportations of Mexicans and possibly other nationals living along its northern border, as well as pressuring the US to get more involved in fighting drug cartels in addition to a trade war.
Jorgen Burke, a U.S.-based Republican partner at the Ottawa Pathway Group, a conservative lobbying firm, did not know whether Trump intended to cede sovereignty to either Canada or Mexico.
“It was going around Canadians, but I don’t think an overreaction was warranted,” she said.
