{"id":20481,"date":"2017-01-27T07:03:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=20481"},"modified":"2017-01-27T07:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T07:03:48","slug":"amid-rising-bilateral-tensions-mexico-mogul-slim-calls-news-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/amid-rising-bilateral-tensions-mexico-mogul-slim-calls-news-conference.html","title":{"rendered":"Amid rising bilateral tensions, Mexico mogul Slim calls news conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"Justify\">\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Amid rising bilateral tensions, Mexico mogul Slim calls news conference<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Amid rising bilateral tensions, Mexico mogul Slim calls news conference:-<\/strong> Mexican mogul Carlos Slim, who was attacked by President Donald Trump during his election campaign but who later met with the U.S. leader in Florida, on Thursday called a press conference for Friday amid growing tensions between the two nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">The rare news conference, in which a spokesman said Slim would take reporters&#8217; questions, comes as Mexico wrestles with Trump over the highly divisive proposition of a border wall and threats to trade between the two neighboring countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Trump has consistently riled Mexicans by pledging to build a wall on the U.S. southern border and make Mexico pay for it, as well as threatening to ditch a joint trade deal and impose punitive tariffs on Mexican-made goods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Those pledges sparked criticism from business leaders including billionaire Slim, who said Trump&#8217;s plans could destroy the U.S. economy. But following the Nov. 8 election, Slim offered a more upbeat take, saying that if Trump succeeded, it would be good news for Mexico.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">In December, after Trump won the U.S. election, the two men dined at Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, with Arturo Elias, Slim&#8217;s son-in-law and spokesman, saying the meal was &#8220;very cordial and with a very good vibe for Mexico.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Slim&#8217;s press conference was set for 12.30 pm local time (1830 GMT) on Friday, in Mexico City.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Slim, the top shareholder in The New York Times Co (NYT.N), is one of the world&#8217;s richest people, with an empire that encompasses telecoms, mining, banking and construction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #000000;\">Source:- http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mexico-slim-idUSKBN15B0AB<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/amid-rising-bilateral-tensions-mexico-mogul-slim-calls-news-conference.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid rising bilateral tensions, Mexico mogul Slim calls news conference Amid rising bilateral tensions, Mexico mogul Slim calls news conference:- Mexican mogul Carlos Slim, who was attacked by President Donald Trump during his election campaign but who later met with the U.S. leader in Florida, on Thursday called a press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12566,10520,6452,12567,10785,2489],"class_list":["post-20481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-amid-rising-bilateral-tensions","tag-latest-business-news","tag-local-news","tag-mexico-mogul-slim-calls-news-conference","tag-usa-business-news","tag-world-news-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}