Nestor Jimenez and Alonso Urrutia
Newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, June 15, 2022, p. 5
Faced with the cases of murders of journalists in the country during this year, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador affirmed categorically: there is no impunity
and reiterated that there are dozens of arrests of the alleged perpetrators.
Asked at his daily press conference about the actions to prevent such attacks, the president explained that in comparison with past governments, in which the State was the main aggressor to human rights and communicators were censored, during his administration – which insisted , is the most attacked since President Madero– freedom of expression is respected and no one is persecuted.
It is not how it is spread abroad, it is not what the European Parliament thought, no, nor how the head of state of the US government, Mr. (Antony) Blinken, thought; I mean, they’re wanting to use this against us for political reasons.
he added.
Reply to Al Jazeera
In response to questions from a journalist from the Al Jazeera network during the conference at the National Palace, López Obrador denied that the questions he regularly raises about some communicators affect the union, since he explained that he refers only to those who support the corrupt regime.
We always respect journalists. Here we always talk about the authentic communicators and the spokesmen for economic power and political power. Here the questioning is to those who have dedicated themselves to supporting the regime of corruption and injustice
he added.
endorsed that It hurts us a lot when a journalist, any human being, loses his life.
and linked the questions to conservative or right-wing groups, to whom, he assured, it is not that they care about the lives of journalists, but rather their annoyance at undertaking a change.
Imagine how mean it is for an authority to order an opposition journalist to be eliminated, that’s just fascism and we are anti-fascists, of course, yes. Here neither Hitler nor Stalin, nor Franco nor Pinochet is respected or revered, that has to do with conservatism, with what they call right-wing; we do not
, indicated the head of the federal Executive. He pointed out that those who unfortunately lose their lives mostly have to do with regional conflicts not linked to power, in all cases, there are very few who are killed by orders of local authorities, they are matters that have to do with organized crime in most cases
.
To prevent someone from being protected, he pondered that despite being common law crimes, the federal government has sent teams to carry out the investigations.
