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04-09-2016, 08:51 AM
Donald Trump masks are yuuuge business for this Mexican retailer
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Despite his comments about Mexican immigrants (http://mashable.com/2015/06/25/univision-pulls-miss-universe-pageant/) and ideas about how he'll make the Mexican government pay for "the wall," (http://mashable.com/2016/02/26/mexico-s-president-drops-f-bomb-on-fox-business-stuns-host/) Donald Trump's GOP front-runner status has managed to be positive for Mexico in at least one way: locally-made masks of his face are selling like hotcakes.
Caretas REV, a mask-making company in central Mexico, has produced tens of thousands of Trump masks since last fall, CNN Money reported (http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/07/smallbusiness/trump-halloween-mask/).*
SEE ALSO: Things just got a lot harder for Donald Trump. The convention could be mayhem. (http://mashable.com/2016/04/06/donald-trump-wisconsin-convention/)
The majority of those masks are sold in the United States, and the company expects orders to increase in coming months, co-owner Ricardo Esponda told CNN.*The deluxe version of the latex mask, which comes with artificial hair, retails for $23 in the U.S., and the standard all-latex version is $19.95.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/09/donald-trump-mexican-masks/)
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Despite his comments about Mexican immigrants (http://mashable.com/2015/06/25/univision-pulls-miss-universe-pageant/) and ideas about how he'll make the Mexican government pay for "the wall," (http://mashable.com/2016/02/26/mexico-s-president-drops-f-bomb-on-fox-business-stuns-host/) Donald Trump's GOP front-runner status has managed to be positive for Mexico in at least one way: locally-made masks of his face are selling like hotcakes.
Caretas REV, a mask-making company in central Mexico, has produced tens of thousands of Trump masks since last fall, CNN Money reported (http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/07/smallbusiness/trump-halloween-mask/).*
SEE ALSO: Things just got a lot harder for Donald Trump. The convention could be mayhem. (http://mashable.com/2016/04/06/donald-trump-wisconsin-convention/)
The majority of those masks are sold in the United States, and the company expects orders to increase in coming months, co-owner Ricardo Esponda told CNN.*The deluxe version of the latex mask, which comes with artificial hair, retails for $23 in the U.S., and the standard all-latex version is $19.95.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/09/donald-trump-mexican-masks/)
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