Laura Poy and Emir Olivares
The newspaper La Jornada
Saturday, August 17, 2024, p. 9
The federal government delivered on Thursday the second diplomatic note in protest against the financing by the United States government to the organization Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI), headed by Claudio X. González and María Amparo Casar Pérez.
At the morning conference at the National Palace, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pointed out that Yesterday (Thursday) the diplomatic note was sent, and I didn’t know, but in the morning the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena, found out that it is the second (letter), which we already sent, one in 2021 and they didn’t pay attention to it. And she already sent another note of protest
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The head of the Executive added that he has also finished the draft of the letter that he will send to his counterpart, Joe Biden, and said that once he is sure that the letter has arrived, he will make its content known.
Basically it is a letter regarding the financing that the United States government grants to Claudio X. González and Mrs. Amparo Casar, and the association that they manage.
he emphasized.
Clarify the destination of resources
After the head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF), Pablo Gómez, released the list of companies and individuals who have provided millions of dollars in resources to MCCI last Wednesday, the federal president insisted that the destination of these resources be clarified.
According to data released by Pablo Gómez, the organization headed by Claudio X. González and María Amparo Casar has not only received million-dollar donations from the United States government, but also from the Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias AC, which gave them 6 million pesos between 2016 and 2018. This organization defines itself as nonpartisan and specialized in social mobility studies.
Among other donors, MCCI has received funds from American Express Company México SA de CV, for 6 million 562 thousand 967, as well as from Corporativa de Fundaciones AC, for an amount of 8 million 796 thousand pesos, while the Entrepreneurs for Puebla Foundation donated 3 million 200 thousand pesos, as did Comercializadora Interceramic, which contributed 3 million pesos, among others.
