Sheinbaum thanks AMLO for support in the face of “interference” from US officials.
The Mexican president said that what AMLO denounced has to do with the "very strong campaign" that, in her opinion, Mexico is suffering from the extreme right.
The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, thanked her predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), this Thursday for the letter in which she denounced the “interference” attitude of US Government officials in order to “strengthen” the right-wing Mexican opposition.
"I truly appreciate your support and what you say about me (...) I fought with López Obrador for years. In the campaign I said let the transformation continue," declared the president, in her daily press conference from Mexico City.
Sheinbaum's reaction comes after his predecessor expressed the day before - in an extensive letter - his "unconditional" support for the ruler and accused members of the White House of carrying out an "onslaught" against the Latin American country to "return to a surrendering, corrupt, mafia-like and cruel government."
In this regard, the head of state said that what was denounced by Andrés Manuel López Obrador "has to do" with the "offensive" and the "very strong campaign" that, in her opinion, Mexico is suffering and that links "a part" of the US Administration.
“It comes, from my point of view, from the most right-wing and far-right sectors in the United States, linked to a part of the Government (…) They want to use Mexico as part of their rhetoric in the (November) election, and to ally themselves with the far-right in Mexico for the 2027 election,” Sheinbaum insisted.
In this sense, the president defended that “we are living in times of definitions” and vindicated the figure of her political mentor.
However, he reiterated that "we have the right to doubt" Washington's intentions due to the "interferences under the pretext of drug trafficking" that occurred in the past.
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The former president's letter coincided with the Los Angeles Times' publication that Washington withdrew the visas of the Mexican governors of the states of Sonora and Tamaulipas (both in the north) due to an alleged investigation against them in that country. EFE