MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a morning press conference on Wednesday that he would send a diplomatic note to the United States over what he called interference regarding U.S. donations to opposition civil organizations.
The president cited U.S. funding for Mexicanos Contra la Corrupcion y la Impunidad, an anti-graft NGO which has investigated possible corruption in his administration as well as that of his predecessors.
“We have dealt with it here several times, it has been made public but now we are going to handle it in the appropriate way through the letter I am going to send President Biden,” Lopez Obrador said.
“Biden has been very good, I am sure that he is not informed of this situation as they may be telling him the funds are in support for a foundation that aims to fight corruption in Mexico when it is the exact opposite.”
Lopez Obrador had last year asked U.S. President Joe Biden to stop the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from funding groups he said were hostile to his government, some of which he accuses of being part of a larger conservative movement against his administration.
(Reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez and Lizbeth Diaz; Writing by Sarah Morland; Editing by Kylie Madry)
