AMLO sides with the cartels
From our US edition
Mexico’s president, the increasingly authoritarian and erratic leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, aka AMLO, visited Veracruz this past Friday to commemorate the 1914 American occupation of that city. In his remarks was a startling declaration: the Mexican state and military, under his leadership, will defend Mexico’s criminal cartels from the Americans. “There is talk in the United States,” said AMLO, “of intervening and confronting organized crime, drug traffickers, treating them as terrorists and that for this reason they will come to 'help' us, to 'support' us to confront organized crime... we do not accept any intervention... if they did, it will not be only the sailors and soldiers who will defend Mexico, all Mexicans will defend Mexico.
