Lopez Obrador criticizes The New York Times for article against Donald Trump

MEXICO CITY.— This Wednesday, during his usual morning press conference, the president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorsaid that the media are in “global decline” and gave as an example the “very rude” front page of the newspaper The New York Times on the attack on the former president of the United States, Donald Trump (2017-2021).

“It comes out in the New York Times “a very rude cover against former President Trump, after the attack, in bad taste, acting like a rag,” the Mexican president accused.

López Obrador was referring to the front page of the American newspaper, which published a photo of Trump’s silhouette one day after the attack on the now Republican presidential candidate during a rally in Pennsylvania, with the text: “He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed the United States. Voters must reject him in November.”

AMLO points out that Mexico is accused of treating Americans badly: “I think that the New York Times published a report in which they supposedly – and it is a lie – say that we treat Americans who come to Mexico City badly. They even say that we blame them for that… pic.twitter.com/2I24JhBtmY

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López Obrador recalled that even the magnate Elon Musk He responded to the newspaper in a message from X in which he accused those who published that cover of being “truly insensitive and despicable human beings.”

“It is not a Mexican issue, it is a global decline in the management of information,” AMLO said.

The Mexican president said that before, the press in the United States “was the freest there was” and was characterized by its handling of the truth, there was ethics, American journalism was a school.”

He also pointed out that the country needs “more politicisation” because “the people are not acting as they should in a true democracy, they are being inactive actors.”

On the contrary, he argued that in Mexico the people have shown that “there is no media power that can be placed above the popular will” and he invited people to continue fighting for the truth.

“Fighting disinformation and manipulation is very important, because if not, imagine, it is like being subjected to a gang of extortionists. In other words, they are the ones who dominate, who form public opinion, who decide, but yes, I think that we have to make more progress in that regard, and it is not the United States, it is everywhere,” he concluded.

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