Is AMLO in the US crosshairs? According to Mexican journalist and columnist Salvador García Soto, a legal offensive in Washington seeks to accuse Andrés Manuel López Obrador of alleged pacts with drug traffickers. The future Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, would lead the initiative, based on statements by “El Mayo” Zambada and the sons of Chapo Guzmán.
The article highlights that Mexican politicians would be collaborating with information and witnesses. In addition, García Soto recalls the tense relationship between AMLO and Rubio, whom the former president accused of having ties to cartels.
The article also mentions the future US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who, apparently, leads the legal offensive against López Obrador, and based on statements by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the sons of Chapo Guzmán; as well as the collaboration of Mexican politicians, who are bringing “information and witnesses” to the US authorities.
García Soto says that sources from Marco Rubio’s team confirmed that work is being done on integrating the case against López Obrador, and recalled that the former Mexican president accused the future Secretary of State several times of having “agreements with Mexican drug cartels.”
The journalist refers to the message offered last Friday by former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo, during a university forum, in which, among other things, he mentioned the “clouds and storms” that are looming over Mexico due to the new government of Donald Trump, which seems to “alert and warn President (Claudia) Sheinbaum that there will be very difficult situations that her government will have to face.”
In his message, Zedillo “recommended the Mexican president to convince her party to pause the constitutional reforms for their thorough review,” in order to strengthen democracy “and to depart from the designs of her predecessor,” said the journalist.
Zedillo warned about the “storms” that Sheinbaum’s government will face against Trump. And he said that difficult times are coming.
Hay una ofensiva legal y judicial que está tomando forma en Washington para acusar al expresidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, de haber hecho pactos con el narcotráfico, y buscar que el tabasqueño comparezca ante las autoridades de EU.https://t.co/ND9n2drrr0
— Salvador García Soto (@SGarciaSoto) January 13, 2025
In the message for the first 100 days of Claudia Sheinbaum’s government, García Soto believes that the president responded to Zedillo’s comments by referring to “the relationship between Mexico and the United States and the imminent beginning of the Trump era.”
In her speech, Claudia Sheinbaum said that “the relationship between Mexico and the United States will be good and respectful,” and added: “We coordinate, we collaborate, but we never subordinate ourselves!”
In her article, García Soto recalled that, in her speech, Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned her predecessor on several occasions. She also highlighted “the good relationship of respect and collaboration of President Donald Trump’s first term with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.”
Journalist García Soto concluded by saying that, “while Washington sends messages and prepares an unprecedented and unpredictable legal offensive against López Obrador, Dr. Sheinbaum does not seem to have any doubts about her absolute loyalty to López Obrador.”
In the end, the columnist assured that the president “will never stop supporting the man who brought her to the Presidency.”
Source: El Universal
