Tuesday, May 14

Mexican president complains that U.S. authorities is funding opposition

MEXICO CITY — Mexico President Andres Manuel López Obrador has once more complained to the United States that the U.S. authorities is funding organizations against his administration, this time in a letter to President Joe Biden.

The letter was dated Tuesday, the identical day López Obrador met with a White House official. The president made an identical grievance in a diplomatic observe two years in the past, simply earlier than a digital assembly with Vice President Kamala Harris.

In the letter, López Obrador states that the United States Agency for International Development for a while has funded “organizations openly opposed to the legal and legitimate government,” an act he described as “interventionist.”

“I am sure that you do not know about this issue and for that reason I respectfully request your appreciated intervention,” learn the letter, which López Obrador learn at his morning information briefing Wednesday.

USAID’s objectives for Mexico give attention to decreasing “impunity, crime and violence by constraining the operational space for organized crime in targeted areas,” in accordance with its present improvement technique.

The organizations that López Obrador has recognized as opposition embrace the native department of Article 19, a global freedom of expression group, which has been crucial of the variety of journalists killed in Mexico.

López Obrador met Tuesday with U.S. Homeland Security adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall, to debate coordination forward of the tip of U.S. asylum restrictions at their shared border.

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