Claudia Sheinbaum lashes out at Ken Salazar after criticizing AMLO’s security strategy: “There has to be logic”
The president of Mexico made known her position regarding the recent statements of the United States ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, who criticized AMLO’s strategy of “hugs, not bullets”
The president reacted to the statements of Ambassador Ken Salazar | Photo: Jesús Avilés – Infobae México
After the United States ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar criticized the security strategy implemented during the previous six-year term headed by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the current president, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, made her position known from the National Palace, highlighting that there is no consistency in what the diplomat said because he has fallen into contradictions repeatedly.
The American diplomat offered a press conference last Wednesday, November 13, in which he attacked the former president and his strategy of “Hugs, not bullets,” while emphasizing that, throughout his six-year term, the Tabasco native did not accept help from Joe Biden’s government, who offered him the amount of 32 million dollars, which would be used to combat arms and drug trafficking between the two nations.
For this reason, the president was questioned from the Guillermo Prieto Hall of the National Palace, in addition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) headed by Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente, sent a letter to the ambassador in which support for the former president was endorsed and, of course, the security strategy that he implemented throughout his six-year term.
“It is worth saying, that there are differences between what the United States ambassador says one day and what he says the next day; such was the case of the reform of the Judicial Branch. On one occasion he said that it seemed good to him and a week later he said that it was going to be very bad for Mexico,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum.
After having made known her first reaction, the Morena member asked her work team to project the statements that the diplomat offered last April of this year when he celebrated the actions carried out in collaboration with the Mexican authorities, which led to the arrest of targets such as Rafael Caro Quintero, Joaquín Guzmán Lorea, alias ‘El Chapo’ or Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, alias ‘El Nini’.
“So, which statement did we hear, the one from yesterday or the one from a few months ago? There must be consequences, there must be logic in the statements that one makes, one cannot declare one thing first and then declare another,” said Claudia Sheinbaum
While the president regretted the statements made by the diplomat, she also recalled that Mexico is a free and sovereign country, so the Government of Mexico has coordinated with President Biden with whom the native of Macuspana, Tabasco, had a permanent and high-level dialogue in search of combating security.
“Mexico is a free, independent, sovereign country and I rule out any direct contact with Ken Salazar since this is up to Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente to maintain the dialogue,” Sheinbaum concluded.
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