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Mexican president compares Trump rhetoric to Hitler and Mussolini
Source: The Guardian
Mexican president compares Trump rhetoric to Hitler and Mussolini
David Agren in Mexico City
Monday 7 March 2016 19.17 GMT
Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto has said that comments by US presidential candidate Donald Trump have damaged relationships between the two countries, and compared Trump’s “strident” tone to those of fascist leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
In his most outspoken comments so far on the GOP frontrunner, Peña Nieto also denied that Mexico would cover the cost of Trump’s proposed border wall.
“There have been episodes in human history, unfortunately, where these expressions of strident rhetoric have led to very ominous situations,” Peña Nieto told the Mexican newspaper Excélsior in an interview published on Monday. “That’s how Mussolini got in, that’s how Hitler got in: they took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time, after an economic crisis.”
Peña Nieto’s pronouncements are the most forceful so far against Trump, whose rise to the top of the Republican primary races has spooked Mexicans of all social strata.
Until now, the president had been somewhat vague in his comments, with broad warnings against populism – interpreted in Mexico as also alluding to leftwing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a contender for the 2018 presidential elections.
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David Agren in Mexico City
Monday 7 March 2016 19.17 GMT
Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto has said that comments by US presidential candidate Donald Trump have damaged relationships between the two countries, and compared Trump’s “strident” tone to those of fascist leaders Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
In his most outspoken comments so far on the GOP frontrunner, Peña Nieto also denied that Mexico would cover the cost of Trump’s proposed border wall.
“There have been episodes in human history, unfortunately, where these expressions of strident rhetoric have led to very ominous situations,” Peña Nieto told the Mexican newspaper Excélsior in an interview published on Monday. “That’s how Mussolini got in, that’s how Hitler got in: they took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time, after an economic crisis.”
Peña Nieto’s pronouncements are the most forceful so far against Trump, whose rise to the top of the Republican primary races has spooked Mexicans of all social strata.
Until now, the president had been somewhat vague in his comments, with broad warnings against populism – interpreted in Mexico as also alluding to leftwing candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a contender for the 2018 presidential elections.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/07/mexican-president-compares-donald-trump-rhetoric-to-hitler-and-mussolini-enrique-pena-nieto
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