López Obrador assured that the real tragedy is what is being experienced in the United States with the fentanyl crisis.
Mexican journalist Jorge Ramos questioned Andrés Manuel López Obrador about the violence during his six-year term and the president showed his “other data” to respond that Mexico is peaceful.
🔴 En Palacio Nacional, el periodista Jorge Ramos cuestiona al presidente López Obrador las cifras de homicidios que dejará su gobierno y que falló su estrategia de seguridad de "abrazos, no balazos", a lo que el Mandatario federal réplica que él tiene “otros datos”
— El Universal (@El_Universal_Mx) January 29, 2024
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Ramos, a contributor to Reforma and Univisión, attended the morning conference at the National Palace this Monday, where he displayed posters with numbers of violence during López Obrador’s mandate.
"Una verdadera tragedia…es lo que pasa donde tú vives, en Estados Unidos. Una verdadera tragedia es que pierdan la vida por consumo de fentanilo 100 000 jóvenes al año", le responde @lopezobrador_ al reportero Jorge Ramos, que llegó otra vez con el tema de la violencia. Además,… pic.twitter.com/4FviC5rBVa
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The journalist stated ( according to the official data he collected ) that during the federal Obrador’s six-year term there have been:
– 166 thousand 193 dead.
– 4 thousand 892 femicides.
– 43 murders of journalists.
Given this, the president showed Ramos a graph with his “other data” stating that the numbers can be interpreted depending on “where you grab them . “
The head of the federal Executive assured that the real tragedy is not what Mexico is suffering, but rather what is being experienced in the United States with the fentanyl crisis.
Jorge Ramos dice: "Presidente, ¿va usted a aceptar que la militarización no funcionó o va a seguir con los abrazos? Usted habla de una tendencia a la baja pero los datos oficiales dicen que hay más muertos que nunca."
— Poncho Gutiérrez (@PonchoGutz) January 29, 2024
1.- ¿O hay militarización o hay abrazos?
2.- Los mismos datos… pic.twitter.com/Nc8EUMkIIV
López Obrador stated that the fentanyl problem has led the United States to become a more dangerous country than Mexico and regretted that they have not found a solution to this crisis.
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