Mexico, govt. rejected Trump’s statements in changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico

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*Officials arrested for drug trafficking were part of the neoliberal period *Sheinbaum’s statements highlights differences between the two presidents *Trump’s colonialist discourse seeks to reposition the U.S. as a power using Latin America *Sheinbaum made it clear that her government will not subordinate itself to that of the U.S. *Sheinbaum insists on maintaining a relationship with Trump based on sovereignty and mutual respect

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00:00The government of Mexico react to a statement made by the president-elect of the United States,

00:04Donald Trump, to the Fed that he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

00:10Our correspondent in Mexico, Antonio Aranda, with more details.

00:17Donald Trump said he will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America.

00:23Claudia Scheinbaum responded with a brief history lesson.

00:30Why don't we call the United States Mexican America?

00:33It sounds nice, doesn't it? Since 1607.

00:43The constitution of Apatzingan was of Mexican America,

00:46so let's call it Mexican America. It sounds nice.

00:49On the assertion that Mexico is governed by drug cartels,

01:00Scheinbaum recalled that Mexican officials arrested

01:03or indicted for drug trafficking were part of the neoliberal period.

01:10Yesterday, President Trump was misinformed, with all due respect to President Trump.

01:15I think he was informed that in Mexico, Felipe Calderón and García Luna still governed,

01:23but no, in Mexico, the people govern.

01:32The Mexican president's statements highlighted the differences between the two presidents,

01:37according to this specialist.

01:39These imperialist connotations that they have more strength than others and that they have

01:46the army to make a real occupation and under this idea of appropriating what they like,

01:51what they are interested in, what they perceive as useful because they have the capacity to do it,

01:56begins to be part of their motives first to name it, socialize it, and then evaluate how

02:01it is being received by the audience in the United States as in the rest of the Western Hemisphere.

02:09The specialist described Donald Trump's narrative as colonialist rhetoric.

02:17Concrete, because that is what the Mexican president is like, concrete.

02:22But always going straight ahead and hitting the nail on the counter argument,

02:25Scheinbaum, unlike Trump who is a true ignorant, she is a scientist, she knows history,

02:31she is a doctor, she is a member of the national system of researchers.

02:35So she gives him a review and with hard data showing him some plates she reminds him that

02:39the Gulf of Mexico is recognized since 1607 by documents of the authorities of the new Spain.

02:50For Donald Trump, this colonialist discourse is aimed at repositioning the United States

02:55as a power using Latin America, explains this professor.

02:59It is not to reposition it in an artificial way, but in a real and more dramatic way.

03:09I believe that two years ago, the U.S. Southern Command,

03:13seeing that some countries were moving towards progressive governments,

03:17the Southern Command said that they were not going to allow China to take over the resources

03:22that are in Latin America.

03:30Threats such as imposing tariffs, increasing the border wall, or using military force against

03:36drug cartels will not make the Mexican government subordinate to that of the United States,

03:40said President Scheinbaum.

03:45Scheinbaum has also insisted that she will seek to maintain a binational relationship

03:49based on mutual sovereignty and respect as of January 20th, when Donald Trump takes office.

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