Narcohistory

How Mexico and the USA jointly created a 'Mexican War Against Drugs'

Tag: 2018

  • AMLO denounces a ProPublica publication

    “President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico. He denounced a ProPublica story as part of a media campaign against him by the DEA and the State Department to damage his political party ahead of the presidential election on June 2. Credit: Gerardo Vieyra/NurPhoto via Getty Images”

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  • Was AMLO first presidential campaign partially funded by druglords?

    “Years before Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected as Mexico’s leader in 2018, U.S. drug-enforcement agents uncovered what they believed was substantial evidence that major cocaine traffickers had funneled some $2 million to his first presidential campaign. According to more than a dozen interviews with U.S. and Mexican officials and government documents reviewed by ProPublica,…

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