Did Drug Traffickers Funnel Millions of Dollars to Mexican President López Obrador’s First Campaign?

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Hmm, a corrupt politician, who would have thought.

 

Did Drug Traffickers Funnel Millions of Dollars to Mexican President López Obrador’s First Campaign?

 

Years before Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected as Mexico’s leader in 2018, U.S. drug-enforcement agents uncovered what they believed was substantial evidence that major cocaine traffickers had funneled some $2 million to his first presidential campaign.

 

According to more than a dozen interviews with U.S. and Mexican officials and government documents reviewed by ProPublica, the money was provided to campaign aides in 2006 in return for a promise that a López Obrador administration would facilitate the traffickers’ criminal operations.

 

The investigation did not establish whether López Obrador sanctioned or even knew of the traffickers’ reported donations. But officials said the inquiry — which was built on the extensive cooperation of a former campaign operative and a key drug informant — did produce evidence that one of López Obrador’s closest aides had agreed to the proposed arrangement.

 

The allegation that representatives of Mexico’s future president negotiated with notorious criminals has continued to reverberate among U.S. law-enforcement and foreign policy officials, who have long been skeptical of López Obrador’s commitment to take on drug traffickers.

 

https://www.propublica.org/article/mexico-amlo-lopez-obrador-campaign-drug-cartels

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Good article, and good choice for posting.

 

Most officials in Mexico are probably compromised.  The question of whether AMLO knew about it (or approved it) can probably be answered either if he admits it or by watching his actions toward the narcotraficantes.