President Andrés Manuel López Obrador accused the United States government of having an “interfering attitude” for financing associations such as Mexicans against Corruption, by Claudio X. González, to carry out campaigns against him.
“If necessary, I will present it to President (Joe) Biden, because the entire campaign against us is being financed by influence peddlers from Mexico (…) businessmen who did not pay taxes and also by the United States government. , which gives money to these associations like that of Claudio X. González and others”, he expressed.
At a press conference in Tijuana, Baja California, the president described these US actions as “an interventionist attitude”, considering that no foreign government should intervene in the affairs of our country, since our sovereignty must be respected.
“We are not a colony, we are not a protectorate, we are a free, independent, sovereign country and, furthermore, I represent a legal and legitimately constituted authority, I was democratically elected, the people elected me.
“It has nothing to do with the exercise of freedom of expression, that is guaranteed, the issue is what is behind it, how is the financing of the media,” he emphasized.
migrants
“It is not possible that the Cuban brothers have senators, deputies, a great influence in the internal politics of the United States, and the Mexicans, already US citizens, are not taken into account, being 38 million,” said, on the other hand, the president when talking about the talks he has had with the US to regularize Mexican migrants who work in that country.
The president said that for a long time he has been “commenting to Joe Biden to promote his proposal to regularize 11 million migrants and warned that, “with all due respect, if there are Democrats or Republicans who vote against our migrant countrymen, we We are going to make it known”.
When questioned about two Mexican Army camps that are installed along the border wall with the US, AMLO justified their placement by pointing out that “they help to prevent human trafficking and especially drug trafficking.”