"Despicable". Mexico President Obrador on Gov Abbott's costly border checks.

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Mexico’s Lopez Obrador says Abbott’s costly border checks that snarled traffic were ‘despicable.

EL PASO, Texas — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday slammed Texas Governor Greg Abbott over his stepped up inspections of commercial trucks at the border, which for 10 days disrupted trade and the supply chain between both countries.

“Legally they can do it, but it’s a very despicable way to act,”[/b] Lopez Obrador said at his regular daily news conference, known as the mañanera. “I would say it’s chicanadas (half-baked) antics from the state government.”

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Abbott, who is up for re-election in November, agreed to end the additional inspections on commercial vehicles after the governors of four Mexican states – Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas – announced they had reached security agreements with Texas.

Lopez Obrador said the Mexican governors and Abbott did not have the authority to do so.

“With all due respect, states have no legal authority to do agreements with a foreign country,” the president said. “Instead of thinking — and I say this respectfully — ‘How will I fix the problem of inflation?’ He is politicizing and even violating international rights.”

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Texas lost an estimated $470 million a day due to the slowdowns. He said his latest study was carried out as a public service and further details will be made public this week.

Mexico is Texas’ No. 1 trading partner. In 2021, there was more than $661 billion in trade between the U.S. and Mexico,

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Lopez Obrador dismissed Abbott’s actions as politics.

“I think the governor of Texas aspires to be a (2024 presidential) candidate for the Republican Party, and so he thinks that with this action he will win support, although it’s also damaging” to the economy, Lopez Obrador said. “The purpose is to create conflict…. something that Mexicans in Texas know all well. But we will not be provoked.”

“It’s great that it has been resolved,” he added. “I just hope (Texas) they will not act this way again. It doesn’t help them. ….How can a person who aspires to be president of a great nation like the United States act this way? I just hope he doesn’t get mad, that he doesn’t lose his sense of humor.”
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Seared Abbott crisp over an open flame, I'd say.
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