"Ja, Donald," Fox said in English as he held his phone, perhaps too close to your face. "Where are your apologies to Mexico for Mexicans in the United States and Mexicans in Mexico?".
Within minutes, the clip of 15 seconds was already posted on the Twitter account of Fox and became an episode of Mexican exmandatario personal campaign against US presidential candidate. Fox has criticized on television, radio interviews and a series of tweets.
Fox's voice joins the growing chorus of influential Mexicans who are worried about a possible victory of Trump and what this could mean for the relationship between the United States and Mexico.
Among those who have spoken out against virulent speech Trump are two former of Mexico, senior government officials, policy analysts, academics, writers and personalities from the world of culture.
President Enrique Peña Nieto compared the language of the candidate of Hitler and Mussolini in an interview with the newspaper Excelsior. Recently, also he restructured the diplomatic corps in the United States of Mexico, because Mexico replaced the ambassador in Washington, Miguel Basanez Ebergenyi, who had been in office less than a year, Carlos Sada Solano, a veteran diplomat. Officials also changed in 26 consulates, partly in response to the popularity of Trump and this reflects on American attitudes toward Mexico.
A statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the appointment of Sada and stressed his experience in "protecting the rights of Mexicans in North America as well as the defense of the interests of Mexico abroad."
While many world leaders are concerned about the way the campaign Trump, so win or lose, could alter the foreign policy of the United States, these concerns particularly affect Mexico and all its diaspora as there are close geographic, economic, demographic and cultural ties between the two countries.
Both nations are enjoying one of the most harmonious periods in its turbulent history. But in Mexico many fear that the friendship will break if Trump wins the election and becomes real threats to undo the Free Trade Agreement, forcing aa Mexico to pay for the construction of a wall between the two countries through the disruption of remittances and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, and about half are Mexican.
"I think the threat is catastrophic for Mexico," said Enrique Krauze, a historian and editor of the literary magazine Letras Libres. "Which would mean for bilateral trade, in social terms, in the breakup of families, trauma, collective panic and opening old wounds."
He added: "I could use one of the favorite words of Trump. Yes, this is 'huge' (huge). It is a great danger. "
Trump Mexican critics say has already damaged the country's image and the Mexican people with their adherence to views that many consider xenophobes. In an event held when he began his campaign last June, the Republican candidate suggested that many Mexican immigrants were drug dealers and rapists.
Some Mexican officials, concerned about the negative impressions of Mexico in the United States, have developed a strategy to improve the image of your country and show how the relationship between the two nations has been of "mutual benefit," said Paulo Carreno, the newly appointed undersecretary for North America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico.
The strategy includes the "cultural diplomacy", grassroots activism and the deployment of some community leaders and business Mexicans living in the United States, he said.
Some government senior officials have publicly reacted against Trump as Humberto Roque Villanueva, Undersecretary of Population, Migration and Religious Affairs, who told the newspaper El Universal that the Mexican government is studying "how to deal with what we call the 'emergency Trump.'"
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Vicente Fox, president of Mexico, is part of a group of influential Mexicans who see the growing popularity of Donald Trump with great concern. Credit Elaine Thompson / Associated Press
"I think Mr. Trump speaks of memory, has no clear or fiscal or international agreements issues," he added. "We live in a globalized world, the United States would have to go back to a kind of Middle Ages to prohibit remittances or collect taxes that are not charged in other parts of the world."
But in general, the government has refrained from commenting on most US presidential candidates. That has frustrated many Mexicans, who have asked the government to come out in defense of Mexico and Trump put in place.
"They can resort to traditional Mexican nonsense and say, 'We do not interfere in elections,'" said Jorge Castaneda, former foreign minister of Mexico. "The real reason is that they have no idea what to do, so the default option is to do nothing".
Instead, most of the Mexican nervousness against Trump comes from the public. At the beginning of his campaign, Trump was seen by many Mexicans with a mixture of alarm and fun. But now the fun is over.
"Why should we care?" Krauze asked rhetorically. "I could not think of a single reason not to worry, right?".
Last fall, Krauze and Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, wrote a letter denouncing the campaign Trump prominent Hispanics and 67 academicians, scientists, writers and film directors United States, Spain and Latin America signed it.
"Their hate speech appeals to the baser passions, such as xenophobia, sexism, political intolerance and religious dogmatism," says the letter.
In recent months, Castañeda has launched a social media campaign for Mexico with the hashtag #ImProudToBeMexican (#MeSientoOrgullosoDeSerMexicano). Aimed at an American audience who speaks English, this initiative has uploaded videos to Facebook and has a website to highlight the diversity of the Mexican diaspora and their contribution to America.
In explaining the US approach of this proposal, he said: "I want to convince Mexicans how unpleasant it is Trump because everyone knows that. That's a fact. "
Increased Fox harangues against Trump began in February with a television interview in which he said that Mexicans would not build the candidate proposed by the wall. Then everything intensified and described the candidate as a "false prophet", "dictator" and "loser".
one selfi was taken on a beach and wrote on his Twitter account: "Trump, this beautiful Cancun. NO're welcome here. " He also published photos of the birthday party of his wife and taunting Trump tweeted: "What do you know about love? Or just you know hate. How sad!".
This month, Fox granted an interview to Breitbart News in which he was sorry for some of his comments and apologized to Trump. But this caused a stir among Mexicans and people everywhere who used social media to accuse him of weakness, so he resumed his belligerence by publishing photos of a tie Trump made in China and Trump coat made in Mexico: garments test, according to Fox, the candidate hypocrisy.
Fox, in a telephone interview from his home in the state of Guanajuato, said he was motivated to attack Trump for what he called his "pure love for this great nation, the United States."
"I do not understand why the American public is supporting this," he continued, showing dismay. "We are partners, we are neighbors and we should be friends. It is not only dividing American society, it is dividing two nations. Why mess with Mexico? ".
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