US Ambassador to Mexico denies investigation into AMLO for links to drug trafficking

The ambassador of U.S in Mexico, Ken Salazarthis Monday denied the existence of an investigation into the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obradorfor alleged links with the drug trafficking.

At a press conference in the western state of Michoacanthe diplomat thus left the controversy generated by the The New York Times about an investigation, now closed, that washington about alleged bribes that López Obrador’s presidential campaign received in 2018, including his children, from Sinaloa Cartel it’s him Zetas Cartel.

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“While the The White House very clearly, there is no investigation related to the president. This is the reality“, said Salazar, in line with what was expressed last Thursday by the spokesperson for the US National Security Council, John Kirby.

The New York Times report joins a note by Tim Golden in ProPublica, who published in January that the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) investigated an alleged “Substantial evidence” that the Sinaloa Cartel contributed $2 million to López Obrador’s 2006 presidential campaign.

The controversy continued to escalate with the release of the phone number of The New York Times correspondent in Mexico, Natalie Kitroeffof López Obrador during his press conference on February 22, which led to the removal of the video from YouTube.

“YouTube rejected me (removed the video), several of them. (…) I would like to ask you to investigate because it seems that the company here, as was the case with Twitter, was taken over by conservatives linked to a conservative party“, he replied in his ‘morning’ upon learning the information.

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Salazar valued the joint work of the US and Mexican governments “on all security issues” and recalled that this Wednesday a bilateral meeting will be held in Washington to address the migratory flow, especially that coming from Guatemala.

“We know that much of what we see in the migration corridor and in this issue has to be resolved by addressing the causes. Now we have the opportunity to do this in Guatemala“He explained.

He also assured that, as ambassador, he maintains a constant dialogue with the Mexican administration and was satisfied that, since Joe Biden’s arrival at the White House, relations between Mexico It is U.S develop “as partners”.

Source: Elcomercio

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