Another blame Trump moment.
Via WACH:
One of President Enrique Pena Nieto’s closest advisers and confidants, Finance Secretary Luis Videgaray, has resigned in a move seen as linked to the unpopular decision to invite Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to visit Mexico.
Pena Nieto has taken responsibility for the decision to invite Trump, but a former government official familiar with the workings of the administration said Videgaray would have had played a preponderant role in the decision. Newspaper columnists in Mexico have reported Videgaray was behind last week’s visit, in which Pena Nieto was criticized for not being forceful enough in rejecting Trump’s proposals and comments about Mexico.
Videgaray acted as Pena Nieto’s campaign manager during his 2012 election campaign, and has been seen as the architect of many administration policies. He led Mexico’s Treasury Department and is sometimes referred to as treasury secretary or minister, but because he oversaw budgets and fiscal policies, his role was closer to that of a finance secretary.
He has shared both in the president’s triumphs and embarrassments; in 2014, Videgaray acknowledged he had bought a house from the same government contractor who sold a mansion to Pena Nieto’s wife, First Lady Angelica Rivera, in the administration’s deepest scandal.
Pena Nieto thanked Videgaray for leading financial reforms during a ceremony at which the president announced he was accepting the resignation, but did not announce a new post for Videgaray.
“He has been an official very committed to Mexico, and very loyal to the president,” Pena Nieto said.[…]
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, also invited to visit by Pena Nieto, said this week that she won’t be going to Mexico before Election Day. She called Trump’s quick stop in Mexico City “an embarrassing international incident.”