{"id":2209331,"date":"2024-03-29T16:56:17","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-blasts-mexicos-amlo-for-trying-to-extort-america\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T16:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:56:50","slug":"cruz-blasts-mexicos-amlo-for-trying-to-extort-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cruz-blasts-mexicos-amlo-for-trying-to-extort-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz criticizes Mexico&#8217;s AMLO for attempting to extort the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fcruz-blasts-mexicos-amlo-for-trying-to-extort-america%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=2209331&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--><p>Senator Ted Cruz from Texas criticized \u200dMexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador for his demands that\u2064 the U.S. provide financial support to Latin American countries and Marxist\u200d regimes, threatening to \u2062allow more illegal immigrants into the U.S. This response came after AMLO claimed to have ended corruption in Mexico and\u2062 downplayed political assassinations in his country. Your summarized text is well-written and \u200cprovides a clear overview of the situation involving Senator Ted Cruz and Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador.\u200c It effectively captures the key points of \u2062contention and highlights the contrasting views between the two leaders.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ted-cruz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-TX) slammed lefist Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, known as AMLO, this week over his demand that the U.S. give billions of dollars to Latin American countries and assist Marxist regimes or else Mexico will continue to allow illegal aliens to flood the U.S. southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz\u2019s remarks come after AMLO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amlo-claims-he-ended-corruption-in-mexico-not-worried-about-hundreds-of-political-assassinations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> during an interview that aired on Sunday that he ended corruption in Mexico and that the hundreds of political assassinations that are carried out every year in his country are not a threat to democracy.<\/p>\n<p>AMLO demanded earlier this year that if the U.S. wanted help in combating the millions of illegal aliens entering through the southern border, the U.S. must give tens of billions of dollars per year to countries in Latin America, give work visas to 10 million illegal aliens in the U.S., lift sanctions on socialist Venezuela, and end the embargo of communist Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNotice his demands. His demands are end the embargo against Cuba. And end the sanctions against Venezuela,\u201d Cruz said on his \u201cVerdict\u201d podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s standing with communist dictators in Cuba and Venezuela,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s who he aligns himself with is the hard-Left anti-American Communist axis through Latin America. That\u2019s who AMLO is. So it\u2019s not surprising. That\u2019s who he\u2019s always been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he trying to extort America? Of course,\u201d Cruz said before comparing AMLO\u2019s remarks to the mob trying to shake down a business. \u201c\u2018Nice little bar you got here, shame if something happened to it. Boy, a fire would do real damage.\u2019 He said, \u2018Well, we\u2019ll keep these migrants coming. Unless you pay us off. Just you know, a bag of cash each week would be good. I\u2019ll send my guys to pick it up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cruz said that AMLO \u2014 whose policy for dealing with drug cartels is \u201chugs not bullets\u201d \u2014 is not afraid of President Joe Biden because Biden \u201cis weak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, Marxist gonna Marxist. That\u2019s who they are,\u201d he added. \u201cHe is going to engage in anti-American rhetoric. The only thing he responds to his strength. This Biden White House is not capable of strength against leftist, against enemies of America. They\u2019re only capable of strength against our friends. They\u2019re only capable of undermining allies of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) strongly criticized leftist Mexican President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador, also known as AMLO, for his recent insistence that the U.S. provide billions of dollars to Latin American countries and support Marxist regimes. AMLO&#8217;s threat to permit a surge of illegal immigrants into the U.S. prompted Cruz&#8217;s rebuke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":2209332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/02\/TedCruz-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2209331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/02\/TedCruz-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}