AMLO attacks the US for a report linking him to drug traffickers

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradoron Wednesday accused the United States of sponsoring “immoral practices” after a renowned American journalist published a report alleging that drug traffickers contributed money to his 2006 presidential campaign.

“I do not denounce the journalist or journalists, I do not denounce the media. “I denounce the United States government for allowing these immoral practices that are contrary to political ethics that should prevail in all governments around the world,” he stated. said the left-wing president at his usual press conference.

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Tim Dourado, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for journalism, published a media investigation on Tuesday ProPública in which he claims that the Sinaloa cartel He gave two million dollars to the first of three presidential campaigns of López Obrador, finally elected in 2018.

According to this work, which cites United States anti-drug agents, criminals were looking for a possible López Obrador government to facilitate their operations.

“The DEA (United States Drug Enforcement Agency) has to say whether this is true or not. What research did they do. But not the DEA: the State Department. “That’s really the problem, and it’s from a long time ago,” said the president, who frequently questions US agencies, despite maintaining good relations with his counterpart Joe Biden.

“It is completely false, it is slander (…) there is no proof” about alleged illegal financing, he noted.

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According to Dourado, “U.S. drug enforcement agents discovered what they considered to be strong evidence that major drug traffickers handed over approximately $2 million to active political operatives.” in López Obrador’s first presidential campaign.

A similar complaint was published on Tuesday by the Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez in German media DW. Both reports are based on interviews conducted by US agents with protected witnesses.

López Obrador maintained that such accusations are part of attacks by his opponents ahead of the presidential elections on June 2, in which the official candidate is leading in the polls. Claudia Sheinbaum.

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The president, whose popularity is around 69% according to polls, accuses the DEA of having failed in its anti-drug strategy, having even dissolved an anti-drug unit trained by that agency, alleging that it was infiltrated by criminals.

He also promoted a reform that limited the activities of foreign agents in Mexico, amid criticism of his security policy that failed to contain drug trafficking violence, to which around 420,000 murders have been attributed since the government of Felipe Calderón. in 2006. (2006-2018) involved the military in the war against the cartels.

Source: Elcomercio

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