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Weekly Report - 24 September 2020 (WR-20-38)
MEXICO: "Debate with arguments and facts, not by discrediting critics”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came under fire on 17 September from hundreds of intellectuals who signed an open letter in defence of freedom of expression, and urged him to desist from politically polarising and inflammatory rhetoric. López Obrador brushed aside the criticism. He accused the letter’s signatories of having “always supported neoliberal policies”, which meant that the ‘fourth transformation’ being undertaken by his government had left them feeling “offended”. López Obrador’s dismissive criticism, ironically, confirmed one of their main points: that he brands any critic a neo-liberal serving a conservative agenda in order to politicise the issue and deflect attention from the content of the criticism.
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