Mexico: the president offends the Jews by calling one of his detractors a “Hitlerian”

Mexico's President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador offended his country's Jewish community on Thursday by calling

one of his many critics, a Jew himself, a

declared the president, targeting an editorialist, Carlos Alazraki.

, he repeated during his daily intervention of more than two hours.

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“Who was Hitler's main propagandist?

Goebbels”

, continued the left-wing nationalist president, a follower of great historical references.

he added.

Elected in 2018, the left-nationalist president claims to be leading Mexico's

following independence in 1821, liberal reforms in 1857 and the Revolution of 1910-17.

One of the figures of his Movement for National Regeneration (Morena), the mayor of Mexico City Claudia Sheinbaum, his possible runner-up in the next election in 2024, is the granddaughter of Jews from Eastern Europe.

replied Carlos Alazraki in an open letter to the president in the newspaper Universal.

"Yes president, I am neo-liberal, conservative and" fifi "(bourgeois) (...).

And you know to whom I owe all this?

To my adored Mexico, which gave me every opportunity to flourish, just like the majority of Mexicans,”

wrote the editorialist.

For its part, the Central Committee of the Jewish Community of Mexico rejected

, judging

any comparison with

According to official figures, the Jewish community in Mexico numbers 59,000 practitioners.