US Election 2016 | Poll shows Mexicans prefer Clinton to Trump

Mexicans favour US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump by a 10-1 ratio, according to a poll.

The poll, conducted by Consulta Mitofsky and recently released, showed that 2.9% of Mexicans have a favourable opinion of Trump, compared to 30.4% for Clinton.

The poll comes almost a month after a meeting between Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City sparked outrage across the country and led to the resignation of Luis Videgaray as finance minister.

Roy Campos, director of the Mitofsky polling firm, said Mexican interest in the US presidential election signified a change from years past. "While in the election of 2008 the interest awakened by [Democratic President Barack] Obama was based on approval ... now the interest is because of fear," Campos said, adding that Trump is the least popular US presidential candidate among Mexicans in history.

When he announced his candidacy in 2016, Trump said Mexico was sending rapists and drug dealers to the United States and that he would build a wall on the southern US border and make Mexico pay for it. He also has threatened to impose punitive tariffs on Mexico, deport millions of migrants and ditch the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The poll, which was conducted between Sept. 2 and 5, surveyed 1,000 Mexicans and had a margin of error of 3.1%.