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Weekly Report - 27 August 2020 (WR-20-34)
MEXICO: López Obrador faces trial in court of public opinion
“All corruption needs to be publicly exposed…to stigmatise the corrupt, to embarrass them.” With these words Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for the video that the former director of the state-owned oil firm Pemex, Emilio Lozoya Austin, submitted to prosecutors as evidence of how bribes were distributed in the previous Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) administration [WR-20-32], to be made public. The president said that, independently of what happens in court, this would allow people to make their own judgements. López Obrador’s intention is for the political opposition to be condemned in the court of public opinion. But it turns out that opposition figures are not the only ones who have been filmed in compromising situations and López Obrador and his allies now also face public judgment.
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