Mexico’s president has lashed out at U.S. funding for a Mexican anti-corruption non-profit group, and said he will send a diplomatic note to the U.S. government in protest. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador claimed Wednesday the group is part of the conservative opposition and shouldn't receive foreign funding or tax-deductible contributions.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador meets with his security cabinet at the National Place in Mexico City, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. MEXICO CITY — Mexico ’s president lashed out at U.S. funding for a Mexican anti-corruption nonprofit group Wednesday, and said he will sendclaimed the group is part of the conservative opposition, and shouldn’t receive foreign funding or tax deductible contributions.
According to documents presented at the president’s morning news briefing, a small amount of funding for the group — about $685,000 — came from U.S. charitable foundations over the last eight years. The organization has issued reports critical of some of López Obrador’s major initiatives, including the cancellation of a partially built Mexico City airport and the construction of aUSAID often supports civil society groups, usually related to human rights or democracy promotion, in many countries. In some nations, such groups sometimes run afoul of local governments.
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