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    Mexicans Launch Boycotts of U.S. Companies in Fury at Donald Trump

    Mexicans Launch Boycotts of U.S. Companies in Fury at Donald Trump

    Ioan Grillo / Mexico City
    3:30 AM Pacific
    The digital image shows a clenched fist bathed in the red, white and green of Mexico’s flag and decorated with the nation’s emblematic eagle. “Consumers, to the Shout of War,” it says in Spanish above the fist.

    “Consume products made in country…Use your buying power to punish the companies that favor the politics of the new U.S. government.”

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    Created by a Mexican food-activist group, the image is part of a slew of messages, memes and videos that have been spreading in Mexico in recent days as President Donald Trump pushes for a border wall, deportations and punishing new trade rules. Others messages call for specific boycotts of U.S. companies in Mexico, including McDonalds, Walmart and Coca-Cola. One of the most heavily trending hashtags is #AdiosStarbucks, or “Goodbye Starbucks,” referring to the Seattle company which has opened hundreds of coffee houses here.


    Play Video President Trump on His Meeting With Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto
    President Trump pushed back on Thursday against the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto's position that his country will never pay for Trump's border wall, arguing that Mexico would pay for the wall indirectly through a U.S. tax reform measure.


    The boycotts illustrate the defiant mood brewing in Mexico in reaction to Trump’s tumultuous first week in the White House. President Enrique Pena Nieto canceled a bilateral meeting in Washington on Thursday after Trump insisted Mexico should pay for the border wall. The Mexican government and leading business lobbies have said the country should pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, rather than accept a bad rewrite. And opposition leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has called for a lawsuit in the United Nations against the planned border wall.

    If a trade war is brewing, it will not be fought on a level playing ground. Mexico has an economy that is only the tenth of the size of its northern neighbor and U.S. import tariffs and the deportation of millions of migrants could push it into recession. But however daunting the Trump White House is, Mexico looks like it won’t go down without a fight.

    “We need to stand up to Trump’s threats and his economic war,” says Enzzo Omar Sosa, part of a collective called Mexicanos Al Grito de Guerra, or “Mexicans to the Shout of War.” The group has social media accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, in which it has been heralding the cries to boycott U.S. companies. “We need to support Mexican companies, which provide jobs and maintain our macro economy," he said. Hitting U.S. companies could also make them pressure President Trump over his aggressive positions against Mexico, he said.

    It is as yet uncertain how much boycotts will affect the bottom line of U.S. businesses here, but they have gained prominence since Trump signed the executive order for the border wall on Wednesday. A shift manager at a Starbucks in the middle-class Roma neighborhood of Mexico City said Thursday he had already seen a slump of about 10 percent in customers at that particular outlet. “It’s bad because this is a franchise and it affects the jobs of Mexican workers,” said the manager, who asked his name not be used as he was not an authorized spokesman.

    Starbucks has not voiced any political support for Trump, and was itself the subject of a protest by Trump supporters in December.


    There have also been several demonstrations against Trump outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, where protesters have burned piñatas of the president. Protester Maria Garcia, of the Bi-National Coalition Against Trump, said the insistence that Mexico pays for the wall is the main contention.

    “They can build what they want in their territory. But pay for it themselves. The demand we pay for it is a weapon to beat us into submission. It is blackmail.”


    The White House has sent mixed messages on how it will actually get Mexico to foot the bill for a wall that could cost up to $15 billion. Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Thursday floated the idea of a 20% tax on Mexican imports, but then later said that was just “one idea.” During the campaign, Trump discussed a wall tax on the $25 billion in remittances sent home by Mexican migrants working in the United States every year. Either of those would, if enacted, have a catastrophic impact on Mexico's economy.


    These positions and others have made Trump a despised figure in Mexico, with a poll in September finding fewer than 3% here had a positive opinion of him. Yet President Enrique Peña Nieto does not fare much better among his own people. A recent Reforma poll found his approval rating had plunged to 12 percent, the lowest among a Mexican president in recent history. Corruption scandals, violent crime and rising prices have all paid their toll on him.


    Diverting the anger to a foreign figure could provide Peña Nieto with some relief. But politics expert Maria Eugenia Valdez thinks he has failed to capitalize on it.

    “He has taken all the wrong steps. He should never have planned to meet Trump so early in his presidency. He is not offering a convincing leadership,” she said. Valdez thinks that the Mexico–U.S. relationship is likely headed for disaster, whatever people do. “NAFTA is already dead,” she said. “It is like a marriage is breaking up. But it is not going to be an easy divorce.”

    http://time.com/4651464/mexico-donal...cott-protests/
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    NAFTA is already dead,” she said.
    Yes, it certainly is. Dead as a Duck.

    Trump won this whole debacle with 1 meeting in Mexico and 4 Tweets as President of the United States. NAFTA is over. Make it official and do what needs to be done to issue the official withdrawal from NAFTA as soon as possible. There are numerous Trump agendas that need termination of NAFTA, including using American Labor and American Steel and Products on the Keystone XL Pipeline, US Infrastructure Program, Build-Up of US Military, etc., etc., etc. NAFTA presently requires federal government and states who didn't object and most didn't to allow foreign NAFTA bidders on all these projects.

    END NAFTA NOW.
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    Well, good luck with that.....
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    Mexicans are always shouting about one war or another. Very angry people it appears. I wonder if the Mexicans that are working at these companies will quit their jobs in solidarity and go home to consume Mexican products...

    BTW, a lawsuit a the UN???? The UN has become, in my opinon, a failed organization that the US should stop funding immediately.
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    I would suggest they look for a Mexican-backed job. Our companies are coming home.
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    Interesting article from Time, the same publication that falsely claimed, Trump had removed MLK's bust from the Oval Office in order to stir racial unrest.
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    McDonalds, Walmart, Coca-Cola and Starbucks better hope the cartels don't get involved in this "TRADE WAR".

    Mexican Drug Cartels Threaten To Blow Up Gas Stations Over Massive Price Hike
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    Mexico is a criminal country full of whiners and free-loaders.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    McDonalds, Walmart, Coca-Cola and Starbucks better hope the cartels don't get involved in this "TRADE WAR".

    Mexican Drug Cartels Threaten To Blow Up Gas Stations Over Massive Price Hike
    All the more reason that we need a wall. The cartels are threatening stations in Mexico, we don't want that or them here. If Walmart, Coca-Cola and Starbucks want to do business in Mexico, it is their choice and they have to deal with the consequences. JMO
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    Quote Originally Posted by Newmexican View Post
    All the more reason that we need a wall. The cartels are threatening stations in Mexico, we don't want that or them here. If Walmart, Coca-Cola and Starbucks want to do business in Mexico, it is their choice and they have to deal with the consequences. JMO
    THEY are already here.
    Mexican drug cartels have people in every major city, and many small cities and towns selling drug right now.
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