Mexico City - Mexico's President, Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador, lashed out at the DEA after issuing an opinion on the reform of the Judicial Branch, stating that organized crime would nominate judges and ministers with such changes.
In Wednesday's morning conference from the National Palace, Lรณpez Obrador questioned:
"I believe that their point of view is taken into account, but they should act prudently, because Mexico is an independent country and to put it colloquially, but with all due respect, who are they to decide on matters that correspond to Mexicans? Who authorized them to stick their spoon in our affairs?" he accused.
The Mexican president indicated that it is as if he were complaining about why Genero Garcรญa Luna, former Mexican Secretary of Public Security guilty of drug trafficking in the U.S., has not been sentenced.
It is as if I were to give an opinion on why they are not informing about the extension of the deadlines to judge Garcรญa Luna, after they have been dragging their feet for I don't know how long and dragging their feet, but it is not my place to get involved in that, they have their own procedures," he said.
Lรณpez Obrador asked the U.S. agency to be "more prudent, more respectful" for the matters that correspond to Mexicans.
And we say it in a good way, as friends," said the Mexican president.
What did the DEA say about the Judicial Branch reform?
It was the national daily El Universal who reported that the DEA circulated an internal document that the election of judges and ministers by popular vote, the main initiative of the reform to the Judicial Branch, would open the door for Mexican cartels to nominate their lawyers as candidates.
"The 13 cartels that dominate the Mexican Republic are preparing to take local judiciaries by storm," it was reported.
Let me educate President AMLO: The DEA is an agency of the 800 lb. gorilla on your northern border.
ReplyDeleteWhen AmLo was elected I thought a leftist with leftist ideals would support the common man. That he would try to make a Mexico that benefitted the ignored. Well, he constructed a narco-state. Remember when some bigshot narco was captured on the west coast and his allies came to his defense, apparently surrounding the military and scary the Mexican president? AmLo ordered him released. The lesson was clear, the government could be intimidated so, yet another arrow in the quiver of the cartels. The only explanation, as I see it, is that he is deep into their pockets with his hugs not bullets strategy. Every time he hugs a cartel guy they stuff his pockets with money. It pained me to come to this conclusion and I fear the new president, from the same party, will be no different. Mexico is a failed state now mostly managed by the cartels. Is the El Salvador solution the only way left?
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