AMLO responded to Carmen Aristegui’s “strong” speech against him: “I wanted to keep the privilege of lying”

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In a new attack against the press, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his dissatisfaction with the journalist Carmen Aristegui, who was awarded the 2023 World Hero of Press Freedom award, granted by the International Press Institute (IPI) and the International Media Support (IMS).

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During the special ceremony in Vienna, Austria, Aristegui denounced the “artious and direct” attacks on communicators in Mexico by “politicians of the highest level”, starting with President López Obrador, whom he accused of throwing “poison darts”. from his morning conferences to anyone who thinks differently.

Stating that these are “difficult times” for the press, he explained that Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries to practice journalism, since from 2000 to 2022, 157 murders of communicators and media workers have been documented. “Deaths, almost all, that have remained in impunity”,

“Killing a journalist is killing society’s rights to know and be informed. And if there are no consequences, as there are not, and if there is impunity, as there is, it is an invitation to continue killing. It is allowing eyes, ears, voices that will no longer be there to inform us to continue to be turned off, ”he lamented.

Aristegui also took the opportunity to denounce censorship and espionage against the media and journalists, and even recalled that both she and her family were monitored through the Pegasus software.

Journalist Carmen Aristegui received the 2023 World Press Freedom Hero award. Photo: Screenshot

During his morning conference on Monday, May 29, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador attacked various journalists, including Carlos Loret de Mola, Joaquín López-Dóriga and Carmen Aristegui, who, he stated, wanted to continue with the “slander” about his government.

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Regarding the journalist’s speech, López Obrador accused that her complaints occur because she wanted to “maintain her privileges” and, like other communicators, continue to “manipulate” the opinion of Mexicans.

“She wanted, like many others, to maintain the privilege of attacking, lying, slandering and slandering. Only them, and the reply?, and the communication?, and the messages back? (…). Listen to López Dóriga, Ciro and Loret, of course they have managed to manipulate! ”, She claimed.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his morning conference on Monday, May 29. Photo: Screenshot

In this sense, the Tabasco president justified his statements from the National Palace by stating that journalists who criticize his political project defend “an anti-popular project”, which promotes inequality, corruption and, in addition, reproduces racist and classist discourses.

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“They are defending an anti-popular project, which has protected corruption in Mexico, which has allowed monstrous economic and social inequality to take place. They, with their positions, have promoted classism or have tolerated it. They have encouraged racism, or have tolerated it. They have encouraged corruption, or have tolerated it. Anything that harms the majority of the people and the nation as a whole, then how can I not defend the transformation project if it means defending the majority of the people. How am I going to stay quiet, ”he replied.

Without stopping his “darts” against the press, the head of the Federal Executive predicted that, due to the elections on June 4, where the governorships of Coahuila and the State of Mexico will be renewed, the “joy” of his opponents for “the campaign” that they will undertake against his government.

“The campaign to everything it gives. I can guarantee you that this week will be the most jubilant because the elections are coming up. Especially those of the State of Mexico ”, he estimated, and held the media responsible for prioritizing the alleged coverage against him in the Mexican entity.

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