Despite controversies, AMLO continues to defend Manuel Bartlett

MEXICO CITY.- Despite the controversies in which he has been involved Manuel Bartlett Diazactual Director of the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE), the president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador continues to defend him.

In recent days, the magazine Processannounced that the Bartlett family had acquired Properties near the Mayan Train at bargain priceseven without paying a single cent.

In response to such allegations, AMLO stressed that he does not have specific information on the recent report, but made it clear that what “said magazine seeks is to discredit” both Manuel Bartlett and the president himself and his administration.

“What I do maintain is that what there is on the part of Process an intention to discredit and slander Mr. Bartlett and the government that I represent,” he said.

Bartlett would be involved in the kidnapping of “Kiki” Camarena

After this controversy, political analyst José Díaz recalled that in 2022 Manuel Bartlett was involved as one of the people who was present in the deprivation of liberty of Enrique Camarena SalazarDEA agent.

The analyst cited a publication from the EMEQUIS media, in which they report that on the day of the kidnapping, “They took Camarena down in a house on Lope de Vega Street in the Jardines del Bosque neighborhood in Guadalajara, owned by Rubén Zuno Arcebrother-in-law of the former president Luis Echeverria. They blindfolded him. Rafael Caro Quintero came out to greet him with a kick that knocked him down: “That’s how I wanted you, son of a bitch!”

However, the most relevant aspect is that Manuel Bartlett Díaz (then Secretary of the Interior) is alleged to have been present.

It is claimed that Bartlett participated in a conspiracy with the criminal organization and personnel from the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to “lift” Camarena and extract from him everything he knew about the operations of that agency on a ranch in Veracruz, where drug dollars financed training of the Nicaraguan Contras under the command of Oliver North himself.

When that information was published, President López Obrador mentioned that “they do it to affect us, it is not only related to discrediting Mr. Bartlett, but discrediting our project, it is part of the disinformation campaign“.

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