Last Tuesday, an article revealed alleged links between some powerful Mexican drug traffickers with AMLO’s first campaign in 2006.
AMLO responded. The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorhe claimed this Thursday to the United States government apologize “if he does not present evidence of which drug traffickers contributed money to his 2006 presidential campaign,” following the publication of a report this week that cites US reports.
“Let the United States government demonstrate, because the president of Mexico has moral authority and has political authority, and If you don’t have proof you have to apologize.”López Obrador said in his usual morning press conference.
Tim Goldentwo-time journalism award winner Pulitzer, published an investigation on Tuesday in the ProPublica media titled: “Did drug traffickers contribute millions of dollars to Mexican President López Obrador’s first election campaign?”in which he cited some public documents of the North American State where alleged contributions from some powerful drug traffickers to the AMLO’s first electoral campaignin 2006.
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“U.S. anti-drug agents discovered what they considered to be solid evidence that major drug traffickers had delivered around 2 million (dollars) to political operators” of the first of López Obrador’s three presidential campaigns, elect finally in 2018.
The interests of drug traffickers and AMLO’s complete response
According to this work, which cites United States anti-drug agents, the criminals belonged to the Sinaloa carteland they sought that an eventual López Obrador government will facilitate your operations.
“How are we going to be sitting at the (diplomatic) table talking about the fight against drugs, if they or an institution of theirs He is leaking information and harming me! Not to me, to what I represent,” the president added this Thursday.
Since Wednesday, López Obrador began to show his rejection to the report demanding Department of State that would clarify “whether it is true or not true” who received money from drug trafficking.
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There are two reports that accuse AMLO of relations with drug traffickers
A report similar to that of Golden It was also published on Tuesday by the Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez in the German media DW. Both reports are based on interviews of American agents with protected witnesses.
López Obrador maintains that such complaints They are part of the attacks of their adversaries facing the presidential elections on June 2, whose polls are led by the official candidate Claudia Sheinbaum.
Source: Ambito
