Fox sends message to AMLO after controversy with NYT: “Colorín Colorado, this lying story is over”

The ex-president Vicente Fox Quezada attacked the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), after the newspaper’s report was released The New York Times, where the alleged relationship of the Tabasco native is described with drug trafficking.

In a video message published on social networks, the blue and white sent a harsh message to the head of the federal Executive, whom he asked to resign from his position after the revelations that have occurred in recent weeks. Fox described Andrés Manuel’s government as a lie, and that, despite the investigations, he has maintained his position denying it.

The former president asked that citizens be treated as they deserve. He also highlighted that the president’s candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardois just a “worse copy” who could take office and continue “with bad policy.”

“President, red color, this story of lies is over. You have nothing left but to give up and recognize reality. You have attacks on all fronts, on all the fronts you keep lying. It is not possible that they try to deceive us any more, we Mexicans are more than those,” he highlighted in his video.

Fox recalled that it is only because of the federal elections that will be held next June 2nd, It is possible to “remove” the Fourth Transformation, especially given the lack of offers in favor of the country that characterize the former head of Government of Mexico City

We Mexicans are libertarians, as democrats, and we will throw you out next June. To you follower, Claudia, has nothing to do in this country, She has nothing to offer Mexico, she is a bad carbon copy of you, and she will be a bad or worse president than you have been. Out with populism, out with demagoguery,” she highlighted.

This February 22, President Andrés Manuel exploded against the American newspaper for having revealed a report in which the president was supposedly linked to drug trafficking, which would have financed his campaign or supported in the electoral process in 2018.

This investigation provoked disparate reactions in the Mexican political sphere, generating immediate rejection by the president and his entourage. López Obrador questioned the integrity of the American newspaper, referring to it as a medium in “decay.”

The report, signed by the journalist Natalie Kitroeff was based on information that would involve a close ally of the Mexican president with Ismael Zambada, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, according to documents from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). According to the newspaper, after López Obrador’s electoral victory, significant payments were made to alleged collaborators of the now president by members of the cartel. However, the United States government subsequently decided not to continue the investigation to avoid diplomatic tensions, especially after the arrest of General Salvador Cienfuegos in 2020 on charges related to drug trafficking.

López Obrador’s defense was immediate, with comments from within his political movement, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena). Your national president, Mario Delgado Carrillo, spoke out against what he described as an attempt at information manipulation and highlighted statements by John Kirby, National Security spokesperson for the Biden Administration, which denied any ongoing investigation against the Mexican president for such accusations. Delgado also recalled the case of Genaro García Luna, former Secretary of Public Security during the mandate of Felipe Calderon, currently imprisoned in the United States for ties to drug trafficking, as an attempt to divert attention from previous controversies.