If Trump okay, so does Mexico:

Lat/Am

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim said on Thursday that if President-elect Donald Trump succeeds in office, it will be good news for Mexico, and that he would be more worried as an American than a Mexican about the next US government.

Slim, a telecoms tycoon who spent several years as the world’s richest man, says he has never met Trump, but the two businessmen traded barbs during a bruising US election campaign in which Trump vowed to build a wall along the southern border to keep out Mexican immigrants.

In October, Trump accused Slim, the top shareholder in The New York Times Co, of trying to help Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton, even though Slim’s shares have limited voting rights.

Then, a few days before the Nov. 8 election, Slim said Trump’s plans could “destroy” the United States economy.

In his first public comments since Republican Trump’s stunning victory, Slim said that Trump’s plans could risk the international leadership role the United States plays.

“I’d be more worried if I were American,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “If he’s going to close the economy ... if he’s going out of the NATO and other international (bodies).”

But Slim added that Trump’s potential success would also be Mexico’s, arguing that a 4 percent US growth rate and the creation of millions of jobs would benefit Latin America’s second biggest economy. (RTRS)

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