After the official nomination of Donald Trump as the presidential candidate for the Republican Party, former Mexican President Felipe Calderón said that "blocking Mexico is something not even Obama can do."
Calderón responded that way to the menacing attitude and comments of Trump against Mexico and its citizens.
"Not even the president of the United States can do it because that's a country based on rights, not on whims," he said in an interview with CNN.
Calderón said that Trump's campaign before the nomination was based on creating hate and racial differences, in order to hook minorities and generate a reaction from the voters.
“Trump was propitiating this sort of reaction in order to agglutinate the ethnic group that he belongs to, the Caucasian majority in the U.S. I think that strengthens his campaign's strategy," Calderón said.
He added that a diplomatic relationship as important as the one between Mexico and the U.S. "can't be canceled just like that and that is something that the next president of the U.S. will realize very soon."
Calderón said that to cancel all commerce with Mexico would mean serious consequences for the U.S., among them the loss of jobs, workers, and commercial treaties, as well as commerce and tourism.
Regarding Trump's plan to build a wall on the border between Mexico and the U.S., Calderón said that "many U.S. leaders had previously ranted about that and got the wall that exists today."
Calderón also said that Trump will not make it to the White House, he will not build his wall and "even more, Mexico will not pay for it".