The New York Times criticizes AMLO for releasing data from his correspondent in Mexico

O New York Times (NYT) described “worrying and unacceptable tactic” published by Andrés Manuel López Obrador from the cell phone of an American newspaper correspondent who revealed investigations into USA for alleged payments of drug trafficking to the 2018 electoral campaign of the president of Mexico.

Through social media, the NYT noted: “This is a worrying and unacceptable tactic from a world leader at a time when threats against journalists are increasing.”.

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“We publish the article in question and support our reporting and the journalists who seek out information wherever it is found“, added the American newspaper.

The journalists’ article Alan Feuer It is Natalie Kitroeffpublished this Thursday, points out that for years, U.S investigated allegations that allies of López Obrador met with drug traffickers and received millions of dollars from drug cartels after he became president in 2018.

According to the newspaper, the US never officially opened an investigation and ended up abandoning the investigation.

In your “morning” this Thursday, López Obrador described the newspaper as “filthy pamphlet”And linked it to a global right-wing campaign.

In front of television cameras, López Obrador showed a letter from the newspaper’s Mexico correspondent, Kitroeff, which included her telephone number and a questionnaire about the investigation into alleged bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel it’s from Zetas Cartel.

The Mexican president added that the report is in retaliation for criticism he made of the New York media in an interview broadcast this week with the Russian journalist. Inna Afinogenova from Canal Red, the YouTube platform of the former leader of Podemos, the Spanish Pablo Iglesias.

In the article, the NYT claims to have accessed documents and interviews in which an informant told US investigators that “one of the president’s closest confidants“he met with Ismael Zambadaone of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel, before the 2018 elections.

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Another source stated that, after the presidential victory of López Obrador, one of the founders of the Zetas Cartel, he paid 4 million dollars to two of the president’s allies in the hope of getting out of prison.

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

He National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai) announced this Thursday an investigation into the disclosure of the Kitroeff phone by Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Source: Elcomercio

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