Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has cancelled a meeting with the new president of the United States, Donald Trump. The meeting had been planned for next week. Pena Nieto acted shortly after Trump posted on Twitter about plans for building a wall between Mexico and the U.S. Trump tweeted early Thursday, “If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting.” Pena Nieto later tweeted, "This morning we informed the White House that I will not attend the work meeting planned for next Tuesday with @POTUS.” POTUS stands for President of the United States. Trump administration official Sean Spicer said: We'll look for a date to schedule something in the future.” And he added, “We will keep the lines of communication open." Jorge Castaneda served as Mexico’s foreign relations secretary under its former administration. In his words, "Pena Nieto has no other choice but to say 'I'm not going.'” Tensions have increased between the two countries since Trump launched his campaign in 2015. Trump had said immigrants from Mexico brought drugs and crime into the U.S. He promised to build a wall to stop them and said Mexico would pay for it. The new U.S. President has also blamed Mexico for taking jobs away from Americans. He wants to re-negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA. Calling it a “total disaster,” he said it costs the U.S. as much as $60 billion each year in trade deficits to Mexico. On Wednesday, Trump signed an order to build the wall as Mexico’s Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray arrived for a meeting with the White House staff. Republican leaders of the U.S. Congress estimated the cost of building the wall would be between $10 billion to $20 billion. Trump said the U.S. will finance the wall initially. But, he said Mexico will repay the United States. “There will be a payment, it will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form," Trump said in an interview with ABC News. Late in the day, a White House spokesman said that Trump is calling for a 20 percent tax on imports from Mexico to pay for the wall.
Title: Mexican President Cancels Meeting with Trump
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1648/mex_pres.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Mexican President Cancels Meeting with Trump' data-article-id='2167'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='11208'>Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has cancelled a meeting with the new president of the United States, Donald Trump.</span> <span data-start-time='11208' data-end-time='16417'>The meeting had been planned for next week.</span> <span data-start-time='16417' data-end-time='30667'>Pena Nieto acted shortly after Trump posted on Twitter about plans for building a wall between Mexico and the U.S.</span> <span data-start-time='30667' data-end-time='45604'>Trump tweeted early Thursday, “If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting.”</span> <span data-start-time='45604' data-end-time='61396'>Pena Nieto later tweeted, "This morning we informed the White House that I will not attend the work meeting planned for next Tuesday with @POTUS.”</span> <span data-start-time='61396' data-end-time='67063'>POTUS stands for President of the United States.</span> <span data-start-time='67063' data-end-time='77146'>Trump administration official Sean Spicer said: We'll look for a date to schedule something in the future.”</span> <span data-start-time='77146' data-end-time='84500'>And he added, “We will keep the lines of communication open."</span> <span data-start-time='84500' data-end-time='94917'>Jorge Castaneda served as Mexico’s foreign relations secretary under its former administration.</span> <span data-start-time='94917' data-end-time='104271'>In his words, "Pena Nieto has no other choice but to say 'I'm not going.'”</span> <span data-start-time='104271' data-end-time='113521'>Tensions have increased between the two countries since Trump launched his campaign in 2015.</span> <span data-start-time='113521' data-end-time='121667'>Trump had said immigrants from Mexico brought drugs and crime into the U.S.</span> <span data-start-time='121667' data-end-time='130958'>He promised to build a wall to stop them and said Mexico would pay for it.</span> <span data-start-time='130958' data-end-time='140667'>The new U.S. President has also blamed Mexico for taking jobs away from Americans.</span> <span data-start-time='140667' data-end-time='149229'>He wants to re-negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA.</span> <span data-start-time='149229' data-end-time='164417'>Calling it a “total disaster,” he said it costs the U.S. as much as $60 billion each year in trade deficits to Mexico.</span> <span data-start-time='164417' data-end-time='179229'>On Wednesday, Trump signed an order to build the wall as Mexico’s Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray arrived for a meeting with the White House staff.</span> <span data-start-time='179229' data-end-time='192896'>Republican leaders of the U.S. Congress estimated the cost of building the wall would be between $10 billion to $20 billion.</span> <span data-start-time='192896' data-end-time='199542'>Trump said the U.S. will finance the wall initially.</span> <span data-start-time='199542' data-end-time='206063'>But, he said Mexico will repay the United States.</span> <span data-start-time='206063' data-end-time='219438'>“There will be a payment, it will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form," Trump said in an interview with ABC News.</span> <span data-start-time='219438' data-end-time='235979'>Late in the day, a White House spokesman said that Trump is calling for a 20 percent 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