AMLO questions who the US invites to the Summit of the Americas 4:19
(CNN Spanish) --
The war of declarations between the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and US senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Bob Menéndez escalated between Wednesday and Thursday when the president challenged them to prove their accusations that he has ties to drug trafficking and supports dictators.
“No, if they are saying that I protect dictators, worse than that, that I have an agreement with drug trafficking, it already seems that I am going to send them a diplomatic note.
No, let's air it out.
If they have proof, let them present it,” he said Thursday at his morning news conference.
López Obrador turned to the accusations of US politicians with more accusations.
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“Marco Rubio, but also to the other, to both, to present evidence, because I do have evidence that Mr. Ted Cruz, a senator from Texas, of Hispanic origin, who obtains his votes for Hispanics, I summon him to present the proof of what he is saying, because I do have proof that he has been given money by those who are in favor of manufacturing weapons in the United States and that there is no prohibition on the sale of weapons, I have the evidence," he said Wednesday at his morning news conference.
"Last year I think they gave him about $120,000, the foundation is called rifle, the National Rifle Association," he added.
Cruz has not responded so far to López Obrador's claim about the contributions he would have received from the NRA.
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According to the Mexican president, US senators Bob Menéndez (Democrat), Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio (Republicans), have also accused him of supporting dictatorships for refusing to attend the Summit of the Americas, since he argued that he would not go because they were not invited the presidents of all the countries of America.
"A president who has harsh words for democratically elected leaders in the United States, but praise for a dictator in Nicaragua, a drug trafficker in Venezuela and a Marxist tyranny in Cuba," Rubio replied on his official Twitter account.
According to a senior Joe Biden government official, the United States did not invite Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela to this event, which is being held this week in Los Angeles, due to the lack of democratic spaces and the human rights situation. in those countries.
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“I also want to know how many years they have been senators, I will leave it there as homework, because they must take a long time,” he said Thursday at his morning press conference.
Rubio wrote on his Twitter on Tuesday that he was glad López Obrador was absent and accused him, without offering evidence, of being linked to drug cartels.
“I am glad to see that the Mexican president, who has turned over sections of his country to drug cartels and is an apologist for tyranny in Cuba, a murderous dictator in Nicaragua and a drug trafficker in Venezuela, will not be in the United States this week. ", wrote.
López Obrador said that the senators “have influence and a lot of resentment, a lot of hatred for the Cuban people, when there is no need to hate and know how to differentiate between the leadership, the authorities, us and the people, and even more so if you have origins in Cuba.”
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