[HIGHLIGHTS] They report that López Obrador was able to receive $2 million from drug traffickers in his first presidential campaign

Andrés Manual López Obrador calls as "slander" a ProPublica report that cites a DEA investigation to establish that AMLO campaign aides in 2006 received money from drug trafficking groups. “It is completely false, it is slander.

They are, of course, very upset. And unfortunately the press, as we have seen, not only in Mexico, but in the world, is very subordinated to power,” the president defended himself. The reporter Tim Golden responded to the Mexican president's accusations by saying that he recommends readers consult the article and "draw their own conclusions"