The president of the United States, Donald Trump , realized during his campaign that the more he cried during his rallies that the Mexicans were going to pay the wall on the border, the more they applauded him in his electoral acts. Everything, even though the voters of Trump, in subsequent declarations after the elections, have recognized THE WORLD that they knew that the president of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto was not going to extend a check to them, as it gave the impression when listening to the republican president so.
In this way, gradually, the controversial wall became a key piece of Trump's harsh immigration policy. And, at the same time, in the great impediment for the president of Mexico to officially visit Trump in the White House.
Earlier this week, Enrique Peña Nieto decided to cancel again a trip to Washington, scheduled for early March, after a tense conversation with Trump for 50 minutes. Once again, dominated by the controversial wall that the American wants to build on the dividing line between Mexico and the United States.
Peña Nieto opted to cancel his visit after Trump told him he could not distance himself from the television cameras that Mexico would not pay for the controversial construction. And, thus avoid public embarrassment facing the voters of his country, who go to the polls to elect president on July 1.
In the opinion of a Mexican official, Trump lost patience with the Mexican. On the other hand, this call was more positive than that of 2017. Then, they took their confrontation to a public haul on the Twitter social network, which ended with the abrupt cancellation of Peña Nieto's trip to avoid further humiliation in front of his people.
Thus, it seems difficult to take a picture of the Mexican leader with Trump in the White House, where the preferential treatment received by former President Vicente Fox of Republican George W. Bush is far behind . The "two friends" used to call them in the American press.
Two closely linked economies.
Even so, it is impossible to forget that the economies of the two countries are interrelated. Their annual commercial exchange of more than 500,000 million dollars forces them to understand each other.
Today, the seventh round of negotiations of NAFTA (the acronym with which the commercial treaty with Mexico and Canada, which entered into force in the 1990s), whose emblem was the maquiladoras (companies that import materials), is popularly known in the United States. without paying tariffs), moved from the United States to Juarez, a city bordering El Paso (Texas). And Peña Nieto wants to renew it before the elections. In the United States, there are also almost 12 million Mexicans residing legally in the country, according to the Immigration Policy Institute. To these data, it is added that about 75 percent of the almost eleven million illegal immigrants are Mexicans, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
However, Trump insists. He wants his wall. All in spite of the fact that there are already approximately built around a thousand kilometers of the 3,000 that cross the border.
Despite the electoral returns that he has given to Trump, it was the Democrat Bill Clinton the first president who started in the California area to build divisive structures with Operation Guardian in his fight against traffickers in the 1990s. In 2006, a more ambitious work was begun, approved by Congress and led by President George W. Bush , which was abandoned during Barack Obama's term in 2010, due to its high cost.
The architect Miguel García, with work in New York, Washington and Florida, recognized this newspaper that from the technical point of view is "a feasible and possible issue with any of the materials raised as concrete, metal or metal fence". "Cover so many kilometers, I find it aberrant," he insisted and recalled the existence of the Chinese Wall.
"It is an excessive expense, its effectiveness is quite relative, and it is also a moral hypocrisy, " he said while pointing out that from the architectural point of view it could make an aesthetically beautiful wall.
Of all the proposals published, he stressed that "there is one that has some color pigments that makes it integrate into the landscape of the dry land." The monotony can be broken through aesthetic or volumetric effects to create shadows on that wall. to make pieces that have a greater height to create a rhythm and a repetition. "Drilling could be done," he said while not hiding that this project already has the construction companies salivating.
His "very high budget, perfect for a large company or multinational," he said. It would take at least a year for its execution. "There will be delicate points with the river (Rio Grande on the US side, and Bravo on the Mexican side), which will require a specific design for certain areas," he maintained, while also mentioning property issues when having to expropriate some land. An issue that has already brought headaches to the Bush administration, and is still pending in the courts.