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<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 tax on imports from Mexico to pay for the wall.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1648/mex_pres.png'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=8009 data-hint-location='206063' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1648/what_does_complicated_mean.m4a'>What does complicated mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='hard to explain'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1648/finance_a_payment.m4a'><span>finance a payment</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1648/cancel_a_meeting.m4a'><span>cancel a meeting</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1648/build_a_wall.m4a'><span>build a wall</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1648/hard_to_explain.m4a'><span>hard to explain</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=8010 data-hint-location='121667' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1648/what_did_trump_promise_to_do.m4a'>What did Trump promise to do?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='build a 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