*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
*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.