Mexican finance minister steps down after helping arrange Trump visit - The Washington Post
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Mexico’s finance minister, who helped arrange U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s visit to Mexico, has resigned, further roiling a political crisis that has been swirling here in Trump’s wake.
In formally announcing the resignation Wednesday, President Enrique Peña Nieto offered no explanation for the departure of Luis Videgaray, one of his closest aides and the architect of some of the government’s signature economic reforms. But it came a week after Trump appeared with Peña Nieto in a meeting that was widely viewed across Mexico as an embarrassment for the country’s leader. Videgaray had served as a behind-the-scenes liaison to the Trump campaign and advocated for the visit over the opposition of other ministers.
The departure of one of his closest allies showed the huge political cost the Trump visit has exacted for Peña Nieto. Videgaray had worked with Peña Nieto when he was a governor and ran his campaign for president. But the Mexican leader’s approval ratings had already been languishing, and the Trump meeting has now dropped him to the lowest point of his presidency, with a new movement even calling for his resignation.