MEXICO CITY, June 20 (Reuters) - Mexico's president said on Tuesday that he had asked Israel for a second time to extradite a former official accused of torture in the Latin American country. Zeron led the heavily criticized investigation into the disappearance of 43 student teachers in southwestern Mexico in 2014 under a government to which Lopez Obrador was opposed. "It can't be that Israel protects a torturer under any circumstance," Lopez Obrador said in a regular press conference. Lopez Obrador, who made a similar extradition request in September 2021, said he expected Mexico's Jewish community to support the effort to extradite Zeron. Reporting by Brendan O'Boyle in Mexico City Editing by Matthew LewisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Persons: Israel, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Benjamin Netanyahu, extraditing Tomas Zeron, Zeron, Lopez Obrador, Lopez Obrador's, Brendan O'Boyle, Matthew Lewis Organizations: MEXICO CITY, Thomson Locations: MEXICO, Mexico, Israel