The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has announced that he will send a letter of protest to his American counterpart, Joe Biden, over the multimillion-dollar funding of an opposition organization, and has asked how such “double talk” and “hypocrisy” from Washington is possible.
“It is in bad taste, contrary to ethics and political civility,” said López Obrador, who presented this Wednesday at his usual press conference the financing of more than 96 million pesos (4.6 million dollars) to the organization Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity since 2018.
“How is it that on the one hand good relations are maintained, there is cooperation and, at the same time, money is given to opponents to slander? Why this vulgar politicking of throwing stones and hiding one’s hand? Why this double talk, this double standard? Why this hypocrisy?” he asked.
López Obrador has announced that he would write to Biden to express his displeasure with this financing and that another note will be submitted through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest what he considers a clear case of interference.
“It’s the last straw, isn’t it? That a friendly, neighboring government is financing an opposition group, a legal, legitimate government. What do you call that? Interventionism (…) It is also a flagrant violation of the Constitution and sovereignty. Foreign governments cannot finance opponents,” he emphasized.
López Obrador has pointed out that this organization –“promoted by the conservative bloc”– is behind most of the injunctions filed against the Government’s policies and works and that they would be responsible for financing the internet campaigns against him under slogans such as ‘narco president’.
According to the report presented this Wednesday by the head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), Pablo Gómez, this organization has been financed, among others, by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Embassy in Mexico City with a disbursement of more than 4.6 million dollars since 2018, the year in which López Obrador won the elections.
