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March 1, 2022

Have Corruption Issues Weakened Mexico’s President?

Rather than presenting clear evidence denying any conflict of interest, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has attacked journalists reporting on alleged corruption in Mexico, Alma Caballero writes below. // File Photo: Mexican Government.

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Andrés Rozental, member of the Advisor board and president of Rozental & Asociados: “Given that López Obrador was elected president largely on his anti-corruption promises, and that he has proven to be largely ineffectual in actually reducing or ending corruption in the public sector, it shouldn’t be surprising that any evidence of conflicts of interest or misdeeds among his own family or those close to him would be singled out and duly publicized by media and other civil society organizations. AMLO’s image as an anti-corruption crusader had already been damaged by two of his brothers receiving bags of unregistered cash for political campaigns and by family members having close ties to public sector projects, as well as by other government officials seen as corrupt but who are not being investigated or prosecuted. In the case of his eldest son’s rented house in Houston, instead of simply proving with documents that there was no conflict of interest…”

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