‘Angry and Disappointed’
In the Zocalo, Trump and Pena Nieto are in a dead heat for most hated president.
“Both of them should be thrown in the trash,” Avila said. “The wall is what matters least. It’s politicians on this side of the border that bother me. How could they allow this person to humiliate us this way?”
It was a lament heard time and again all afternoon. Only the tone and some of the smaller details varied.
Nohemi Sanchez, a recent college graduate, expressed it this way: “We send our best products and produce abroad, and they leave the worst for us. This is what angers me, really -- that our government doesn’t work in favor of our interests. We’re a country rich in natural resources but Mexico doesn’t do anything.”
Sitting a few feet away, Yareli Flores was listening intently to Sanchez. Music from organ grinders and the shouts of ice-cream vendors echoed around them. After a couple of minutes, Flores, a monument restorer on her lunch break, chimed in. She’s glad, she stated, that her 5-year-old daughter is too young to understand what’s happening.
“I’m angry and disappointed,” she said. With U.S. politicians or those in Mexico? “All of them. They’ve all disappointed me.”
This article was provided by Bloomberg News.