President Andrés Manuel López Obrador immediately interpreted the reports as a U.S. attack on his government and his Morena party before Mexico’s June 2 presidential election.
The stories described testimony by traffickers that they passed about $2 million to confidants of López Obrador in 2006, when he narrowly lost the race for president.
Political Cartoons View All 253 Images“It is completely false, it's slander,” López Obrador said Wednesday at his daily media briefing.
López Obrador is notoriously touchy about anything that tarnishes his own moral authority or reputation, upon which his entire party rests.
Campaign operators linked to López Obrador have been caught on video several times receiving large sums of cash, but with no proof he knew about it.
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