Mexican president lashes out at EU ‘lies’ over his media-bashing rhetoric

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Mexico’s government has lashed out at the “corruption, lies and hypocrisy” of the European parliament after its members urged its populist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to rein in his media-bashing rhetoric after the murders of at least six Mexican journalists.

Mexico’s press corps has been plunged into mourning this year by a succession of killings targeting media workers in what was already one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/mexico-lopez-obrador-european-parliament-journalists
 
As journalists face deadly violence, Mexico’s president attacks the media

By Editorial Board
February 15, 2022 at 10:57 a.m. EST

Mexico is experiencing one of the deadliest periods on record for journalists, with five killed so far this year. But instead of addressing these dangers, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador devoted much of his regular news conference on Friday to attacking one of the country’s most prominent media figures, Carlos Loret de Mola.

On Friday, in a brazen attempt to discredit and intimidate an independent voice, Mr. López Obrador presented a slide purporting to show Mr. Loret de Mola’s income in 2021. He claimed it was “15 times” more than the president’s salary, though Mr. Loret de Mola says the amounts presented were false and that he hasn’t worked for at least one of the organizations listed since 2019. The public sharing of a citizen’s confidential financial information is an unprecedented abuse of power. Mr. López Obrador has also threatened to ask tax authorities to confirm this information, which would violate Mexico’s privacy laws.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...acks-amlo-carlos-loret-de-mola-press-freedom/
 
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