AMLO calls the New York Times a “filthy pasquín” for investigating his alleged ties to drug traffickers

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorcalled this Thursday a “filthy pasquín” The New York Times (NYT) for investigating alleged drug trafficking payments received in his 2018 election campaign based on an investigation by washingtonclosed today, which also involved his children.

“Is shameThere is no doubt that this type of journalism is in frank decadence. “The New York Times is a filthy pamphlet”, said the president in his morning conference.

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The Mexican president displayed a letter from the newspaper’s correspondent in Mexico, Natalie Kitroeffwhich includes your telephone number and a questionnaire about the investigation into the alleged bribery of the Sinaloa Cartel and Zetas Cartel.

López Obrador He maintained that the report, which has not yet been published, is retaliation for criticism he made of the New York media in an interview broadcast this week with Russian journalist Inna Afinogenova from Canal Red, the YouTube platform of the former leader of Podemos, the Spanish Pablo Iglesias.

“They didn’t like it because yesterday the New York Times correspondent sent a questionnaire to Jesús (Ramírez, spokesperson for the Presidency), but in a tone that you will now see, threatening, arrogant, warning that they are carrying out an investigation with information from the “DEA ( Anti-Drug Agency)”he said.

According to the text of Kitroeffthe newspaper accessed documents and interviews in which an informant said that “one of the president’s closest confidants” met with Ismael Zambadaone of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel before the 2018 elections.

Another stated that after the victory of López Obrador one of the founders Zetas Cartel paid $4 million to two of the president’s allies in hopes of getting out of prison.

While a third assured American investigators that the cartels had videos showing the president’s children receiving money from organized crime.

The journalist indicated that washington closed the investigation because “it could cause a conflict diplomatic with Mexico“, particularly after the friction of the Government of López Obrador with that of donald trump (2017-2021) for the arrest in October 2020 of the former head of the Mexican Army, Salvador Cienfuegosaccused of drug trafficking.

“In other words, they were afraid of us because Mexico he is respected. All of this is false, completely false. ‘Did the president or members of his administration know about this recent investigation?’ No, because it’s fake”, commented the president.

The investigation adds to that of ProPublica, which in January published that the DEA investigated alleged “substantial evidence” that the Sinaloa Cartel contributed US$2 million to López Obrador’s 2006 presidential campaign.

As then, the president now asked “the United States Government to speak out” on the matter, but clarified that “in no way can they affect” bilateral relations.

Source: Elcomercio

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