Mexican president upset that members of drug cartel were arrested?
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blasted the U.S. on Tuesday with claims that the Pentagon had spied on his country, marking another significant step backward in an increasingly tense relationship.
"We're now going to safeguard information from the Navy and the Defense Ministry because we're being a target of spying by the Pentagon," Lopez Obrador said during his daily news conference.
Obrador’s comments followed arrests made in a significant drug bust: U.S. prosecutors announced charges against 28 members of the Sinaloa cartel, including three sons – known as the Chapitos – of former drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the charges at a press conference Friday, and Obrador claimed that the U.S. could not have built its case without information gathering by U.S. agents in Mexico.
He labeled the investigation as "abusive, arrogant interference that should not be accepted under any circumstances," CBS News reported.
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If the Mexican law enforcement was doing its job it would have arrested the cartel members long ago. His anger at the arrest is more than passing strange.
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