Five days ago, Mexican President Lopez Obrador demanded the U.S. government respond to the diplomatic protest sent by the Mexican government on May 7 over Agency for International Development (AID) funding of the “Mexicans against Corruption and Impunity” (MCCI). That NGO is running the opposition to Lopez Obrador’s government in the June 6th midterm Congressional elections, on behalf of the international financiers. AMLO (as he is known) referenced the promise from an official from the AID program at the U.S. Embassy that they would “review” the charge, but added: “they are taking a long time… Let’s hope that by this week they stop these payments.”
Associated Press reported that afternoon that the State Department responded to them that it does not comment on diplomatic correspondence.
Lopez Obrador upped the ante in his May 20 morning press conference:
