MEXICO CITY, Oct 16 — Mexico’s president today castigated the previous government as corrupt after the arrest of a former Mexican defence minister on drugs charges in the United States yesterday, and gave his full backing to the current chiefs of the rattled military. The morning after the...
Friday, 16 Oct 2020 09:35 PM MYT
MEXICO CITY, Oct 16 — Mexico’s president today castigated the previous government as corrupt after the arrest of a former Mexican defence minister on drugs charges in the United States yesterday, and gave his full backing to the current chiefs of the rattled military. “We won’t cover up for anybody,” Lopez Obrador said, before voicing fulsome support for Cienfuegos’ successor at the head of the army and his counterpart in the navy, two of the most powerful anchors of national security in Mexico.
But Lopez Obrador quickly incorporated the incident into his narrative that his predecessors had presided over a steady increase in corruption.
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