“Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, spoke to President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon, and both later characterized their discussion as positive while providing different descriptions of what Mexico is doing to stave off a potential tariff war,” the New York Times reports.
“While Mr. Trump posted on social media that Mexico had agreed to stop migration to the United States through Mexico, ‘effectively closing our Southern Border,”’ Ms. Sheinbaum limited her description of the migration-related issues they had discussed to migrant caravans no longer reaching the border with the United States.”
“Still, Ms. Sheinbaum, who earlier in the day had made clear that Mexico would impose retaliatory tariffs in response to similar measures threatened by Mr. Trump, seemed to ease tensions by saying the exchange was ‘excellent.’”
