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RT Agency The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, reported on Thursday that the correspondent director of the American newspaper The New York Times (NYT) sent him a “threatening” email requesting information about an investigation he allegedly conducted asked the US government against him.
“This is all wrong, completely wrong,” said López Obrador, who pointed out that given the claims made by Natalie Kitroeff, representative of the North American media company, “the US government must now provide clarification on this situation.”
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During his morning press conference, the Mexican president displayed the letter sent by the NYT's chief correspondent in Mexico on Tuesday morning “in a threatening, arrogant tone” to suggest that the newspaper was working on a report on an investigation conducted by the New York Times “US government during the term of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador” in connection with the alleged financing of his 2018 election campaign by drug traffickers.
Kitroeff, in his query read by the Mexican president, clarified that the report differs from another the vehicle published weeks ago, which referred to another alleged drug trafficking financing for López Obrador during the 2006 election campaign, a publication that based on investigations without evidence conducted by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
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In the letter, the NYT representative told the presidential press team that they had until February 21, 2024, 5:00 p.m. to respond to the comments. In her argument, the journalist raises a series of questions, although she warns that the investigation is already “closed,” just like the one conducted by the DEA in 2006, because “the US authorities recognized that there was a diplomatic conflict with “Mexico” could come to them.
However, Kitroeff adds that the report will talk about alleged “informant statements and money transfers” that were investigated by the US government based on suspicions that “close allies” of President López Obrador “aligned with drug cartels.” and received millions of dollars from drug trafficking.” .”
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“You are fake”
Afterwards, the Mexican president began reading the questions sent by Kitroeff, repeating that the answer to each of them was “nothing” because the topic raised was “wrong.” “You are the New York Times falsifiers and the ones who told you to do the report,” he added.
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López Obrador, anticipating several of the topics that the North American media outlet will address in its next publication about alleged links to the drug trade, added that the report prepared by the NYT is “slander” and that it will have no impact on the US good relations that your government currently has with the USA.
“It's a shame, there is no doubt that this type of journalism is in complete decline, the New York Times is a dirty gossip,” said López Obrador, who had also recently referred to the journalist and former correspondent's report from Mexico Tim Golden published it weeks earlier in the same vehicle and won two Pulitzer Prizes.
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“Some time ago there was a report against me by an alleged very professional, awardwinning journalist, Tim Golden, who was a journalist for the New York Times,” said López Obrador, who explained that these types of publications were “fraud” and are said to be “deceptive” because they obey the interests of “international conservatism,” which employs recognized communicators and vehicles that have the reputation of being “professional, independent and objective,” but who in reality are “nothing of the sort.”
“They are professional slanderers of world renown,” the president added after criticizing the NYT publications, which he said were published without providing “absolutely no evidence” and which only aimed to impose a false narrative, which he called Widespread media propaganda is feeding the world with “automated bots” repeating on social media that López Obrador is “a drugsmuggling president.”
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The Mexican president added that these reports and their widespread circulation on social media were published intentionally, as Mexico and the United States are in the middle of an election year. So “the oligarchy, the right and international conservatism” are trying to influence the community with false publications to manipulate voters.
“Conservatism and the right in the world rely heavily on the media (…) just as there is Reforma here, which is in the service of conservatism, so is the New York Times (…) They are also mercenary advertisers “as journalists” suitable for these media campaigns, López Obrador added.
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