By Profesor Armando Vazquez-Ramos, President and Founder of The California-Mexico Studies Center, Inc. – June 25, 2020
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With all due respect, I am writing to give you some advice: Do not come to meet with the nefarious and racist President Donald Trump for any reason or justification.
If you participate in such a meeting, it will remain in history as the worst diplomatic mistake of your administration, and it will be seen as an endorsement for the reelection of the most despised president in the world, and for his racism and hatred against Mexicans, immigrants and women.
I foresee that your visit to “celebrate” the new NAFTA (T-MEC) and the 1,000 respirators sold by the United States to Mexico, will cast you respectively in history as the president Antonio López de Santa Anna of our time, and as Chancellor Luis Videgaray, who arranged the visit of the Tweethitler-in-chief to Mexico during his 2016 presidential campaign to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto.
We know how these two politicos are remembered in the history of Mexico.
For the 40 million Mexicans who live in the United States, it would be shameful and an insult that President López Obrador's first visit abroad would help re-elect Trump, the worst president in the history of this country. Especially because you, President Lopez Obrador, have not wanted to visit our paisanos, who send almost $40 billion dollars annually in remittances to the Mexican economy.
We are a Mexican nation abroad, abandoned by your government, and which has not enacted any policies to care for what is already 25% of the Mexican population that lives in the U.S., and which represents for Mexico a huge human capital of high resources, beyond the remittances that are sustaining Mexico’s economy.
Your government and Mexico have nothing to gain from this visit because Trump will betray you, and we have everything to lose by you 'celebrating and thanking Trump', for a PRI economic agreement that will continue to harm Mexico, as NAFTA has done for more than 25 years.
I ask that you to cancel your visit and consult with the Mexican diaspora living on this side of the border, but above all, to take us into account in the future.
Source: The California-Mexico Studies Center, Inc.
