Photo of the week: A Mexican newspaper in disbelief over Trump victory

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Shock, sadness, anger and fear spread across Mexico on Wednesday as the nation woke up to the reality of a U.S. president who has threatened to deport millions of its countrymen, rip up trade deals and make it pay for a wall along the American border.

The electoral victory of Donald J. Trump was already shaking the Mexican economy before dawn, with the peso weakening in after market and Asian trading by 13 percent—its most rapid loss since the 1994 “Tequila crisis,” which decimated the country. Mexico’s stock exchange then opened to fall 4 percent.

Mexicans are fuming about the political rhetoric that has come from the Trump camp during the 2016 US presidential campaign - the references to them being criminals and rapists, the constant talk about illegal immigration.

Mexicans working in the US bring back around $25bn (£20bn) a year in remittances. Mexicans believe they contribute to the US economy and are offended that Mr Trump does not value that.

However the threats that the US will build a wall on its southern border and Mexico will pay for it are laughed at here. People don't really think it will happen so it's not a real worry.

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