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How Trump's Approach To NAFTA Is Reverberating In Mexico

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Trucks move along Interstate 35, in Laredo, Texas, in November 2016. President Trump’s campaign promise to abandon the North American Free Trade Agreement helped win over Rust Belt voters who felt left behind by globalization. But the idea is unnerving to many people in cities on the U.S.-Mexico border. (Eric Gay/AP)
Trucks move along Interstate 35, in Laredo, Texas, in November 2016. President Trump’s campaign promise to abandon the North American Free Trade Agreement helped win over Rust Belt voters who felt left behind by globalization. But the idea is unnerving to many people in cities on the U.S.-Mexico border. (Eric Gay/AP)

President Trump announced that he won't terminate NAFTA — at least not before trying to renegotiate it with Mexico and Canada. The peso has been falling in value amid fears about the trade agreement's future.

Meanwhile, Trump's push for funding the border wall is at an impasse, as Congress moves forward with a "wall-free" short-term spending plan to keep the government funded.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with Rodrigo Cervantes (@RODCERVANTES), Mexico City bureau chief for KJZZ's Fronteras Desk, and Milenio TV host Carlos Puig (@puigcarlos) about how these stories are playing in Mexico.

This segment aired on April 27, 2017.

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