The President of Mexico has become inspired by the world leaders on how to negotiate with Trump

When US President Donald Trump called her, Mexico President Claudia Shinbom was ready to speak with an American leader who would not back down from customs tariffs, but instead she was able to negotiate a deal that inspired world leaders a way to speak with the United States about their own trade deals, and it was. The call of February 3, is difficult, often tense, and took a long time, about 45 minutes, according to people familiar with the matter.

They said that Shinbom had Trump on trade, drugs and immigration, in ways that caught his attention, without an escalation to a dispute, and a person familiar with the discussions said: “One must speak in Trump’s language.”

The idea of ​​its management was that Mexico would deploy 10,000 soldiers on the border to combat the flows of “fentanel” and assist in border security, and agreed with the American President to stop customs duties for a month, to find out how the process of imposing fees on the border is going, with a similar agreement for Canada.

In the end, Trump was admired by her hardness, but at the same time she played her role brilliantly, for example, one of the Mexican officials said that the deployment of the forces is something that Trump loves, and later that day, Trump said that he “had a wonderful conversation with Mexico”, and added to reporters: “President Shinbom is a woman who loves her a lot,” and before adding that whether or not he loves her, she still has to stop drugs and illegal immigration.

The surprise deal, which Shinbaum concluded with Trump, showed Canadian officials that there is a way to avoid the punitive definitions announced by the United States on the first of February, and according to a senior official in the Canadian government, Canada did not initially had what it could display to Trump, as Mexico offered it, From the transfer of 10,000 soldiers to the border, but then settled on investing 140 million dollars in a new unit to collect intelligence information about organized crime.

Canada also said that it would follow the steps of the United States and classify the Mexican “Cartitals” as terrorist organizations, and according to the Canadian official, the move raised the ire of the Mexicans, who felt that it supports Trump in his desire to punish the “cartridges” in a reckless manner, and perhaps using US military force.

In Europe, where leaders are preparing to hold trade talks with Trump, officials said they studied Mexico and Canada’s reactions and were in close contact with them.

Shenbum has now become the most popular politician in Mexico, with support rate of 75%, a sign of the extent of circumventing it in the country, while Trump threatens to cancel the free trade agreement, which prompted the manufacturing sector in Mexico to rise in the past three decades.

She and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face another confrontation with Trump, on the fourth of March, when the period of suspension of definition measures ends, but business leaders in Mexico said they have become more confident that she might again find a way to work with the American president.

Shenbum was not expected to deal skillfully with Trump, as she is a leftist political and academic known for her strict behavior, and she started her university activity that represents in many respects the opposite of what Trump sees, but she has developed relationships with senior Mexican businessmen who speak with Trump and provide her with advice And her predecessor and counselor, former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, dealt similarly with Trump in 2019, when Trump called on Mexico to stop migrant flows to the United States.

Lopez Obrador sent about 28,000 soldiers to stop immigrants on the borders of Mexico with Guatemala, and Trump withdrew his threat to customs duties, and since she took office in October, Shenbum, the observers in Mexico surprised her with some ideological issues, especially with the local business community and foreign investors. On the “Wall Street Journal”

. Xinbom has Trump on Trade, Drugs and Immigration in ways that caught his attention, without an escalation to a dispute.