Denise Dresser ironized AMLO's stance on attack on the press: “I'm just going to slander and defame them”

Amid the climate of violence against Mexican journalists, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) insisted that his government does not censor or persecute the media or personalities who “act as mercenaries” and “defenders of vested interest groups”.

However, this argument generated several criticisms against them, which recalled the attacks on the guild carried out from the stand of their morning lectures; these comments were joined by the journalist, Denise Dresser.

“We are never going to persecute any journalist, nor are we going to repress anyone,” said the Chief Executive on the morning of March 15; a statement that served as the line by which the columnist complemented it ironically through her Twitter account.

What the reporter said was in response to a tweet published by her counterpart, Azucena Uresti, who only shared the transcript of part of what López Obrador said.

And, last week (March 7-11), the Milenio host received two accusations of the Tabasqueño: the first, pointing to her for supposedly “serving groups of vested interests "and the second, for allegedly having received a contract offer on Latinus - a portal for which Carlos Loret de Mola collaborates.

Meanwhile, the latter has been the main target of the president, especially after the publication of the “gray house” of his son, José Ramón López Beltrán, whose dimes and diretes climbed up to a breach of Loret's personal data, when Andrés Manuel revealed the alleged salary he would enjoy.

For that reason, the journalist also replied to the tweet with some laughing emoticons. It should be noted that, even with the attacks that this action entailed, AMLO again called for transparency of its income and assets, as well as the journalists “paid by the corruption regime”.

In addition to this exhortation, on the morning of March 14, the president expressed his gratitude to the opposition press because, he commented, his reports and investigations serve to deny “the idea that journalism is like the castle of purity”: “We have the opportunity to confront,” he said.

He also said he was confident that “I don't mind being attacked”, since “his moral and political authority” acts as a “protective shield” to the criticism of the more than 20 conservative people who reign nationally and internationally, such as, he said, the Members of the European Parliament.

The latter follows the line of defense that López Obrador - and supporters of his government - proclaimed after the European Parliament condemned the threats, harassment and murder of journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico, for which it urgently urged the clarification of those crimes.

In view of this, AMLO disapproved the request of the European body, calling it “slanderous”: “It can sometimes be thought that it was only here before that it was customary that legislators will vote without reading, without being informed, by slogan, but now we are learning that is happening all over the world,” he said.

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