Mexican president pressures US to stop aid for NGO

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Mexican president pressures US to stop aid for NGO

May 19, 2021

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador upped the pressure on the United States Wednesday to end aid payments to an anti-corruption group.

López Obrador claims that the U.S. payments are tantamount to interfering in Mexico’s internal affairs and funding the opposition to his government.

“It would be like the Mexican Embassy in the United States giving money to the opposition,” the president said. “They should not be giving money any more.”

In early May, just before an online meeting with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, López Obrador said Mexico had filed a diplomatic note with the U.S. Embassy on the issue.

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López Obrador has long attacked nongovernmental organizations like Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, which he says has received about $2.5 million in U.S. money.

He claims the group is aligned with the opposition, though it says it simply monitors government spending and programs for abuses. It was founded three years before López Obrador took office and has criticized previous governments and other parties.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. K & R n/t

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's really good to start noting US-connected corporate media always go NEGATIVE on Latin leftists.

You will NEVER see a postive piece of any Spanish or Portuguese Latin American leftist leader.

Not until far more sane people are in control.

It's sad to see such an non-democratic practice is used on us daily by our own corporate media.

Like mushrooms, we are raised in the dark and fed ####.