AMLO assures that the US does not respect the sovereignty of Mexico after a report on violence from the State Department

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accused the United States of “not respecting the sovereignty” of the country by the State Department’s annual human rights reportwhich denounced violence and impunity in Mexico.

“They are not used to respecting the sovereignty of the people. Yesterday, for example, the State Department issued a resolution stating that in Mexico human rights are violated and they position themselves as the judges of the world“said the president in his morning conference.

The Mexican president reacted to the report from Washington, which On Monday he accused Mexico of leaving the majority of criminal cases such as homicides, torture, kidnappings without investigating or prosecutinghuman trafficking and extortion, so the levels of violence and exploitation in the country remained high.

The periodical publication concludes that there have been “significant changes” in the human rights situation in Mexico and specifies that, in many parts of the country, organizations dedicated to human trafficking continue to act in collusion with local authorities.

López Obrador responded that in his Government “they are respectful to them”so “they should be respectful.”

“We don’t tell them: and why do you have a candidate harassing you in court? And why do you allocate billions of dollars for war? And why don’t you release (Julian) Assange (founder of Wikileaks), who has been unjustly imprisoned,” he explained.

He also accused US authorities of “not caring for young people in the United States who die from drug addiction, fentanyl” and “repressing and mistreating migrants.”

“We do not issue a letter of good conduct because it is not our responsibility., but they stayed with the mania of 200 years ago, since the Monroe Doctrine. Hopefully that will change because it does not help them, they are stagnant in the management of foreign policy, with all due respect,” he concluded.

The tension between Mexico and the United States grows in 2024, when the presidential elections in both countries coincide.

With information from EFE.

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