The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said that the United States Government is behind the financing that makes possible attacks on his person and its national project.
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“The campaign against us is financed by influence peddlers from Mexico who in the past sold medicines and did juicy deals, businessmen who did not pay taxes and also by the United States GovernmentAmlo said from Tijuana.
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The Mexican president affirmed in turn that, if necessary, he would maintain communication with his US counterpart so that he stops financing organizations in his country that, according to his words, are promoters of campaigns against him.
“That is an interventionist attitude. No foreign government should intervene in the affairs of our countryour sovereignty must be respected, we are not a colony, we are not a protectorate, we are a free, independent, sovereign country,” said the president.
In addition, he again asked that the income of several journalists critical of his government be disclosed to the public. Amlo assured that his government will maintain the protection of journalists but that he has the right to dissent.
He also criticized the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (INAI), which on Wednesday rejected a request from the president to investigate the income and assets of journalist Carlos Loret de Mola and his family, according to the newspaper. The universal.
“I already sensed that they were going to respond in that way. Because of their attitude since this institute was founded,” concluded the president.
The president will be on a tour of Tijuana in Baja California, on the border with the United States, dealing with issues of national security and the aforementioned situation with communicators in his country.
Bloomberg
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