The Mexican Foreign Minister shot back at Senator John Kennedy for insulting Mexico’s standard of living, calling the Louisiana Republican and Foghorn Leghorn tribute politician “a profoundly ignorant man,” the Guardian reports.
At a Senate committee hearing last week, Kennedy demanded the Drug Enforcement Administration force Mexico to deal with drug cartels, going on a xenophobic screed saying Mexicans “would be eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent behind an Outback [Steakhouse]” if the United States was not their next-door neighbor providing economic opportunities. Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard was not off in his assessment of Kennedy, given that the Oxford-educated Senator prefers to play a folksy, backwoods politician to cater to his base.
In another slap, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador urged the 37 million Americans of Mexican and Latino descent “not to vote for people with this very arrogant, very offensive and very foolish mentality.”