Facing possible crippling tariffs, many in Mexico support President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's measured response.
June 5, 2019
“We do not want conflict, a war. Let us avoid that,” said Gilberto Lozoya, a 26-year-old in the northern city of Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, who works for a factory that exports boilers for U.S. brands like Whirlpool. A poll tracking his day-to-day popularity saw it rise about four points from Trump’s announcement May 27 to nearly two-thirds approval as of Tuesday. And on Sunday, voters handed López Obrador’s Morena party the governorships in two states with significant trade ties to the United States — Puebla, home to a Volkswagen plant, and Baja California, which borders California and is dotted with manufacturing and assembly plants known as “maquiladoras.
“He has to be very, very tough, or rather very ‘firm’ is the word, in saying Mexico cannot tolerate commercial blackmail being linked to immigration policy,” Morales said, adding that he sees a good chance the tariffs won’t happen because the outcry from U.S. business interests would be too great.
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