Mexico's president on Friday said he had no information about comments from a U.S. general that Russian intelligence agents are based in Mexico, and reiterated Mexico's non-interventionist stance.
"We don't have information on this," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference when asked about the general's remarks, adding that the government would not impede any foreigner from carrying out legal activities.
"Mexico is a free, independent, sovereign country … We're not going to Moscow to spy on anybody, nor to Beijing… nor to Washington," he said . . .
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