Former Mexican president Vicente Fox has given an uncompromising response to Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s plans to make Mexico pay for a wall along the US border with Mexico.
“I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall. He should pay for it. He’s got the money,” Fox told Jorge Ramos on Fusion.
“Are you afraid that he’s going to be the next president of the United States?” Ramos asked the former Mexican president. “What would that mean for Mexico?”
“No, no, no, – democracy can not take that, crazy people that don’t know what is going on in the world today,” Fox said. “This worries me, the last caucus in Nevada ... he won 44% of Hispanics. I’d like to know who those Hispanics are, because they are followers of a false prophet,” Fox said.
“He’s going to take them to the desert, and if they think that they will benefit with an administration led by Donald Trump, they’re wrong. They must open their eyes. Please, you Hispanics in the US, open your eyes.”
“It is not to defend our race, it is not to defend our creed, but to defend the same nation that is hosting you,” Fox implored. “This nation is going to fail if it goes into the hands of a crazy guy.”
Meanwhile, Vice-President Joe Biden said he felt “almost obliged” to say sorry for verbal attacks on Mexico in the presidential campaign, in which Trump has labeled Mexican migrants rapists and drug runners.
Speaking alongside Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto during a visit to Mexico City, Biden never mentioned Trump, who nonetheless loomed large over the proceedings.
“There’s been a lot of damaging and incredibly inaccurate rhetoric, and I would argue, I feel almost obliged to apologize for some of what my political colleagues have said ... about Mexico, about the Mexican people,” said Biden, a Democrat.
Property mogul Trump, who has built up a big early lead in the race to become the Republican nominee, has vowed to make Mexico pay for a wall to seal off the US from its southern neighbor, prompting widespread criticism in both countries.
“I just want you to know, Mr President, that the most heated rhetoric you’ve heard from some of the competitors for the nomination for president, is not who we are as the American people ... It’s the exact opposite,” Biden added.
Without naming Trump, Peña Nieto also weighed in, saying: “building walls is just isolating oneself”.
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