Posted on 04/25/2016 8:36:17 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - At first, Mexico's government did its best to ignore Donald Trump. Then it likened him to Adolf Hitler. Now it has appointed a new ambassador to come up with a better plan.
Fed up with the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination labeling Mexico as a cradle of drug-runners, job poachers and rapists, the government is sending in respected diplomat Carlos Sada to lead a fightback.
Mexico's new ambassador in Washington, Sada acknowledges his country has neglected its image across the border and aims to fix that with PR and media campaigns, and by lobbying prominent U.S. companies, lawmakers and civic leaders.
"We need to do a more thorough job so that people understand what (Mexico) contributes," he said after he was sworn in at Mexico's Senate on Thursday.
Sada's strategy includes underscoring Mexico's importance to the U.S. economy, although it centers on defending the rights of Mexican citizens in the United States and promoting Mexican culture.
That focus has fed doubts over whether the government is trying hard enough to win over its most important audience: American voters.
"It's vital to improve Mexico's image and protect our people, but that's not enough to change the hateful trend that Trump and other xenophobes before him have stirred up," said Gabriela Cuevas, an opposition lawmaker who chairs the Senate's foreign relations committee.
"They don't understand the extent of the damage Trump has done," she said, urging the government to be more aggressive in mobilizing powerful U.S. interests against Trump's attacks.
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Keeping your drugs and citizens on your side of the border would go a long way to improve your image.
And not treating your majority indigenous population like s—t would help as well.
How about building a free, prosperous, civil society?
Get some principles! Obey the rule of law! Root out corruption! Terminate the cartels ability to do business! Destroy the ISIS training camp in your country! Pay for the wall!
Let’s see....things Mexico can do to improve it’s image here....
- Stop exporting vegetables grown in fields of human waste and causing hepatitis outbreaks here.
- Start extraditing Mexican citizens who are wanted for felonies here.
- Stop your army patrols from straying across the border and disarming innocent Americans.
- Tell your citizens to refrain from soccer hooliganism every time your national team plays a game here.
- Tell your citizens here generally to behave themselves as guests, and to quit marching around, waving Mexican flags and demanding stuff.
That’s a start.
To all! Well said.
> Fed up with ... labeling Mexico as a cradle of drug-runners, job poachers and rapists,
Here’s an idea. Stop drug running, stop poaching jobs and stop raping people.
Sorry Gabriela, but we’re tired of your country being on the American gravy train. It’s about time that useless government of yours in Mexico City actually set about making Mexico a livable country again.
He left out....rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, s#@!-kickers and Methodists.
A little boy born in Mexico shouldn’t aspire to run a set of Mexican bagpipes in the USA
May-hee-co has "contributed" about 20% of its population to the USA. It's damn well time for us to "contribute" them back and let May-hee-co pay for their upkeep.
Need. Wall. Now.
Why don’t you do something to fix your own freaking country instead of sponging off ours?
A bunch of cocktail partys with Washington insiders should clear things right up
We need you to contribute to a reely beeg wall senor. Mui pronto too.
Reading a little of Ambassador Sada’s job in DC will be to keep the illegals coming to America and protecting them.
Ambassador Sada should be encouraging better education to ALL of their citizens and job opportunities in Mexico instead of shipping them north.
Mexicans do not think they must comply with ANY US law.
They believe they can ignore ALL of our laws.
Maybe if they changed their attitude, we might change ours.
No - Mexico has been sending its image across the border in the form of its people (as well as hordes of OTMs - Other Than Mexicans).
That makes no sense. All they need to do is work with Obama's Social Network teams on retooling their PR campaigns.
Mexico caving to Trump.... lol...
somebody needs to post the link of the Marine left to rot in a Mexico jail while Zero golfed and SOS ignored his very existence. oh yeah - and Trump took care of him..
Thank you for that Mr. Trump.
“Fed up with the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination labeling Mexico as a cradle of drug-runners, job poachers and rapists...”
Sounds spot on to me.
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