Donald Trump's Mexico Visit May Have Taken its First Victim
Donald Trump's Mexico Visit May Have Taken its First Victim
AS/COA’s Carin Zissis comments on President Enrique Peña Nieto’s cabinet shuffle after Trump’s Mexico visit.
Less than a week after a sudden visit by Donald Trump left Mexicans frustrated with their government, President Enrique Pena Nieto has shuffled his cabinet after the resignation of one of his closest advisers, Finance Minister Luis Videgaray….
… Videgaray's departure has necessitated a shuffling of posts in Pena Nieto's cabinet. The new finance minister will be Jose Antonio Meade, who served in the same role in 2011 and 2012 under Felipe Calderon, Pena Nieto's predecessor. Under Pena Nieto, who took office in 2012, Meade was foreign minister and headed the Social Development Ministry.
Luis Enrique Miranda, who was a deputy secretary at the Interior Ministry, will take over Meade's role at the Social Development Ministry.
Like Videgaray, Miranda has deep ties to Pena Nieto, serving as interior minister for Pena Nieto's government in Mexico state….
…"I read it as [Pena Nieto] putting a confidant into a key post," Carin Zissis, editor-in-chief of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas website, told Business Insider….
