Getting tough with Trump is good politics for Mexican president Peña Nieto

Mexico will not pay for wall, says Peña Nieto

It did not take long for a diplomatic rift to open between the United States and Mexico following the election of Donald Trump.

Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto has cancelled a planned visit to the White House after Trump signed an executive order calling for construction to begin on the much-vaunted border wall between the two countries.

Trump campaigned heavily on the idea of building a wall, and insisting Mexico pay for it, while also pushing to renegotiate NAFTA, the trade agreement that has bound the economies of both countries (and Canada) for