“Of course we are sorry for what is happening in our country and for this event in particular, and we offer our sincere condolences, but I can tell you that we have addressed the issue of two Oaxacan farmhands killed by farmers and one wounded and nothing came out in the American press, Nothing”.
In this way, the president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denounced the “hypocrisy” and “whodunit” of US politicians and the media ahead of the kidnapping of four Americans in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, where they appeared on Tuesday, two of them dead.
AMLO’s statements came during his daily press conference after swallowing the telephone news of the governor of Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal — during that same conference — that two of the four Americans had been assassinated.
So, even without an official reaction from the US, AMLO threw the ball at the “yellow” US media.
“There are very hypocritical people”
“There are also partisan interests, I would say political ones, there are very hypocritical people that, for example, he regrets these facts, he uses them for political purposes, he traffics with human pain, with people’s pain, but his purposes are for other purposes,” he said.
Villarreal confirmed that authorities have found the four Americans kidnapped since last Friday in the border city of Matamoros, where two have died and another was injured, for whom there is already one detained.
The four Americans, who were traveling in a North Carolina-registered car, were attacked by an armed group shortly after they entered Mexico, according to the FBI, which He offered $50,000 on Sunday to help locate them.
López Obrador regretted the events but criticized that “it is very surprising that these unfortunate events occur and all media in the United States handles information in a sallow wayNot so when Mexicans are murdered in the United States, they are silent as mummies”.
They tear off their clothes hypocritically, he condemned.
The president avoided answering directly whether there are FBI agents working on the case in Tamaulipas, a state bordering Texas known for its drug cartel disputes.
Additionally, he questioned Republican politicians, such as William Barr, former Attorney General (2019-2020) during the presidency of Donald Trump, and who accused López Obrador of protecting drug traffickersand lawmakers seeking to declare Mexican cartels terrorists.
“We don’t allow any foreign country to intervene in matters that affect only Mexicans. Don’t we get involved to see what the gangs in the United States that distribute fentanyl are doing or how the drug is distributed in the United States?” , held.
“Enough of the hypocrisy and they see nothing but the speck in each other’s eyes and not the beam in their own,” he ruled.
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