In the midst of the dispute that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico had last week with United States legislators over the security policy that his government has undertaken, and the recent murder of two United States citizens in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, the president assured that Mexico it is a safe country.
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When the president was questioned about the travel warnings to Mexico that the United States issues for its citizens, the president not only praised the security in Mexico but also assured that Mexico is safer than the United States.
“Mexico is safer than the United States ”, said the President of Mexico emphatically and assured that there is no problem to travel throughout the country safely. He justified this with the fact that there are many American tourists in different parts of the country today.
“You say that the alerts say that you can only travel to Campeche and Yucatán, if that were the case, so many Americans would not be able to come to live in Mexico City and the entire country. In recent years is when more Americans have come to live in Mexico, so what is happening? Why this paranoia?” said the president.
He denied that security in the country is in question, and attributed the problem to American politics and “conservative politicians from the United States who do not want the country to continue transforming for the good of Mexicans.”
In the midst of the disputes that he has had with legislators such as Dan Crenshaw for proposing the intervention of the US Army in Mexico to confront the cartels, as well as the designation of these organizations as “terrorists”, President López Obrador criticized that the media in the United States is dominated by “vested interest groups”, both political and economic.
According to the president, there are media outlets that do not represent the citizenry, but rather the elites of economic power, and while in the United States, the alternative is to search for information through other channels, in Mexico there is little political illiteracy. (In Mexico, it is illegal to insult the president)
The president justified that there is no fear or violence in Mexico, but that these accusations respond to a campaign of “pure and vile manipulation” from the United States.
Currently, according to the US Department of States, it is recommended not to travel to six states of the country, including Colima, Guerrero, Michoacán, Sinaloa, Zacatecas and, recently given the kidnapping and murder of US citizens by criminal groups, added to this list Tamaulipas.
While the US requested to reconsider trips to seven other states due to risks from crime groups and kidnappings; and only two states that the US Government informs US citizens to exercise normal precautions when traveling, however, overall safe states in Mexico, these are Campeche and Yucatán.
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