{"id":1904528,"date":"2023-03-24T16:57:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-president-fires-back-at-blinken-denies-cartels-control-any-part-of-country\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T16:58:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T20:58:25","slug":"mexican-president-fires-back-at-blinken-denies-cartels-control-any-part-of-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mexican-president-fires-back-at-blinken-denies-cartels-control-any-part-of-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican president fires back at Blinken, denies cartels control any part of country"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmexican-president-fires-back-at-blinken-denies-cartels-control-any-part-of-country%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1904528&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div id=\"Brid_79679752\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:16; height:9;\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"AOC cries 'fascism' as Republicans advance parents bill of rights\"><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"House Democrats took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Thursday to denounce a GOP bill on parental rights, saying the bill was fascist and would lead to book bans. 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According to a response from Lopez Obrador to the information on Friday, Blinken&#8217;s cases were untrue, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-blinken-mexico-violence-cartels-40a48b160aa0e01798eb8dc7b51fa5bd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign\/mexican-president-decries-possible-trump-indictment-fabrication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A POSSIBLE President Prosecution IS DECIDED AS&#8221; Construction&#8221; BY THE MEXICAN PRESIDENT.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<figure class=\"Figure mb-1 mb-sm-3 mb-md-1 article-lead-photo data_invisible\" data-align=\"center\" data-image-size=\"fixed\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div class=\"Figure-container\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"767\" height=\"530\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" width=\"767\" height=\"530\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_md\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"645\" height=\"446\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\" ><source media=\"(max-width: 1440px)\" width=\"645\" height=\"446\" data-image-size=\"1060x600_xl\" ><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1060\" height=\"733\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\" ><source width=\"1060\" height=\"733\" data-image-size=\"1060x600\" ><\/picture><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\" itemprop=\"caption\">On February 28, 2023, at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will deliver his regularly scheduled morning news conference while displaying a portrait of Hispanic Revolutionary War common Francisco&#8221; Pancho&#8221; Villa. ( AP Photo \/ Marco Ugarte )<\/figcaption><div class=\"Figure-credit\" itemprop=\"author\">AP Marco Ugarte<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8221; That is untrue. It&#8217;s untrue, he claimed. There is not a single place in the country&#8217;s authorities where officials are truly present.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, he acknowledged that some organizations had managed to access Cofepris, the nation&#8217;s drug regulatory body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; They even had representatives in Cofepris, people lobbying there ,&#8221; he claimed. He continued by saying that the situation had resulted in the charges against five authorities.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that those who had infiltrated the business did so in order to permit the import of Chinese goods that produced fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez Obrador called Mexican authorities officials&#8221; liars&#8221; in response to a report from the U.S. State Department on Thursday that accused them of violating human rights.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FOR MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER, CLICK HERE.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>He said that Blinken was a decent man who was&#8221; just doing his job ,&#8221; which gave the impression that he had somewhat backtracked on his charges.<\/p>\n<p>Following the abduction of four American visitors by a drug gang, tensions in the United States and Mexico have recently increased. The travellers were killed, two of them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador denied claims by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that drug cartels effectively control parts of Mexico. At a congressional hearing on Wednesday, Blinken said it was &#8220;fair to say&#8221; that parts of Mexico were controlled by drug cartels. 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