Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lashed out on the US State Department for accusing his administration of alleged human rights abuses. According to Russian information outlet Russia Today, the left-wing Mexican president rejected the accusation hurled at his administration and referred to as its nation’s north neighbours ‘liars’. The aggressive remarks from Obrador got here on Tuesday throughout a press briefing in Oaxaca. The assertion got here after a State Department report on Monday claimed that there are ‘credible stories’ of illegal killings and torture of civilians by Mexican authorities.

‘It’s not true. They’re liars,’ Orbador asserted when a reporter requested the Mexican president concerning the accusation hurled by the nation’s American neighbours. ‘It’s not price getting indignant about,’ he added. In the Monday report, the Joe Biden administration additionally accused the Obrador administration of rampant corruption. The State Department additionally expressed its concern concerning the rising crime charges within the nation and said within the report that the low charges of offences getting persecuted are a part of the explanation for such deplorable crime fee numbers.

‘That’s simply how they’re, The US believed it is the federal government of the world’. Earlier this month, the Mexican president boasted about the truth that his nation is safer than the United States. ‘Mexico is safer than the United States,’ he stated throughout a press briefing, ‘There is not any drawback with travelling safely round Mexico,’ he added. The Tuesday remarks by Obrador got here earlier than he’s anticipated to satisfy John Kerry, the previous US Secretary of State and the present local weather envoy beneath Biden’s administration.

White House responds

After the Mexican president blatantly rejected the claims made by the American report, the United States responded to the assertions made by Orbador. During a press briefing, State Department spokesman Vedant Patel was requested concerning the remarks made by Obrador. ‘The reported involvement of members of Mexican police, army and different authorities establishments in critical acts of corruption and illegal arbitrary killings stay a critical problem for Mexico, and that is why they had been highlighted in our report,’ Patel said throughout a press convention.

When requested about Obrador’s remark concerning the US considering of itself because the world authorities, the State Department spokesperson rejected such claims. ‘We have by no means been ones to point that we’re the federal government of the world or some type of edict like that,’ he asserted. “We have by no means been one to try to indicate that we do not have our personal challenges. We do not sweep issues beneath the rug,’ he added.

Published: March 22, 2023 19:42 IST