Mexican President vows to get back at U.S. candidates who speak poorly of Mexicans 

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said he would be willing to influence the political rhetoric during the U.S. midterm elections if candidates were to speak poorly about Mexican, reported Foreign Desk News. 

“We are not going to allow Mexican migrants to be questioned in campaigns to supposedly win votes, we do not accept xenophobia, we do not accept racism,” the president said at a May 20 press conference, referencing the U.S. November elections. 

“And if a party, candidates, thinking that if they speak ill of the Mexican they are going to get votes, well, from here we are going to denounce those facts so that our countrymen over there know who is who,” he added.

According to a Pew Research poll, around 36.6 million Mexicans live in the U.S., making it the most prominent Hispanic origin population residing in the country. 

AMLO compared the almost 40 million Mexicans in the U.S. to the 4 million Cubans who reside in the nation, adding that Cubans “have great influence in guiding U.S. policies in relation to the rest of the world.”

In April, AMLO addressed Hispanic Americans and asked them not to vote for candidates that “mistreat” citizens from Latin America and the Caribbean in November’s midterm elections. 

"If Mexico or some country in Latin America and the Caribbean is mistreated, do not vote for those parties and for those candidates whether they are from the Democratic or Republican party," the Mexican president said. 

“When someone goes too far and causes offence, we’ll call them out so that our countrymen help us. Because there are 40 million of us,” AMLO said at the time. “Don’t forget your origins.” 

On Monday, AMLO announced that he would not attend the Summit of the Americas because the U.S. did not invite all of the countries in the continent. 

"About the Summit, I can already inform the people of Mexico that I will not be attending, (Foreign Minister) Marcelo Ebrard will be representing me and the government. And I am not going to the Summit because not all the countries of America are invited and I believe in the need to change the policy that has been imposed for centuries. Exclusion, the desire to dominate without any reason, the lack of respect for the sovereignty of the countries, the independence of each country," explained the President.