On Wednesday, February 7th, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador vehemently rejected claims that drug traffickers helped to fund his first presidential campaign in 2006, describing the allegations as “completely false.” Lopez Obrador also criticized US authorities for violating “political ethics” after the claims appeared in an article published on the ProPublica news site, which
Stephen Engelberg is ProPublica’s editor-in-chief and served as founding managing editor from 2008–2012. On Friday, February 9th, Mr. Engelberg published the following editorial on ProPublica, which describes itself as a nonprofit newsroom investigating power abuses. Apparently, Lopez Obrador is subject of investigation. Almost every weekday at 7 a.m., Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador holds
Three separate articles released simultaneously on Tuesday report claims that the 2006 campaign of Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, received millions of dollars from the Sinaloa Cartel. López Obrador, who claims to have lost the 2006 and 2012 elections likely due to fraud before being elected in 2018, denied the allegations
After we wrote about a suspected cartel donation to the Mexican president’s 2006 campaign, he’s gone on the attack against reporter Tim Golden. Golden won’t be attending AMLO’s press conferences, but here, we respond to some of his questions.