The editorial pages of Mexico’s largest newspapers have reacted with fear in response to the election of Donald Trump.
One piece in El Universal, Mexico’s largest newspaper, described the election as “black Tuesday.” The author of the piece, Hector de Mauleón, said, “today it is like the question ‘where were you during the earthquake of 85?’ Maybe in the future, we will ask ‘where were you when Donald Trump won?'” That earthquake left at least 5,000 people dead.
In another opinion article in Milenio, Hector Aguilar Camin wrote that its now “Mexico vs Trump.” Camin focused on Trump’s main policies that would affect Mexico the border wall, deportations, and getting out of NAFTA. Camin said that while he is against these positions, Mexico can’t do much about them.
This worry about Trump building a wall is shared by Ricardo Raphael in El Universal in a story called, “The wall that is coming.” Raphael wondered if the wall is an inevitability and asked if stopping it is “impossible.”
Maybe a simpler explanation of Mexican media’s feeling about Trump’s election is summed up in the front-page headline of El Grafico which said, “FUUCK!”
Mexico City's newspaper "El Gráfico" didn't miss and hit the wall… pic.twitter.com/0gbHGzsCpM
— Alan Ferrier (@alanferrier) November 10, 2016