Mexican Economic Minister Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal said on Wednesday that Mexico was prepared to “talk to the devil” should Republican Donald Trump win the U.S. presidential election in November. Villarreal gave the response during a forum sponsored by the Americas Society/Council of the Americas in New York that featured the presidents of Peru, Chile and Colombia, with Villarreal standing in for Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. “We cannot afford to risk a very important bilateral agreement,” Villarreal said at the event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly when asked about the possibility of Trump becoming president. When other leaders at the event were asked about Trump, Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said in a joking manner: “Oh, no, we’re not worried at all.”He then added: “That’s the thing Trump doesn’t understand. The United States and 48 other nations are so-called observer states within the alliance.

Source: Huffington Post September 22, 2016 01:03 UTC