“Today we must recognize the talent and courage of @CarlosLoret. In the most difficult moments of the new authoritarianism … until now ”, said the ex-president through Twitter, regarding the videos released by the host of latinus.
Mexico City, August 21 (However) .- After Carlos Loret de Mola broadcast a video in which the brother of President López Obrador allegedly appears receiving money for the Morena leader’s campaign, former President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa asked to recognize “the talent and courage” of the journalist in times of “authoritarianism.”
“Today we must recognize the talent and courage of @CarlosLoret. In the most difficult moments of the new authoritarianism … until now ”, said the ex-president through Twitter.
Yesterday, Calderón Hinojosa wrote in that social network: “” Tell me what you presume, and I’ll tell you what you lack “, regarding the videos broadcast by Loret de Mola that show David León, who was appointed by the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to lead the state drug distributor, delivering cash to Pío López Obrador, brother of the current Chief Executive, prior to the 2018 Presidential campaign.
“While the situation I am going through is clarified, and in order not to affect the Government of Mexico, I will not take a protest as a member of the Ministry of Health team,” David León wrote minutes after the images were released. Calderón also reacted to his words: “his situation is very clear!”
Today we must recognize the talent and courage of @CarlosLoret. In the most difficult moments of the new authoritarianism … until now.
– Felipe Calderón (@FelipeCalderon) August 21, 2020
When he gave the money to Pío López Obrador, León was working as a private consultant, social communication advisor and political operator for the Government of Chiapas, which was then led by Manuel Velasco.
Pío López Obrador was one of the electoral operators of his brother’s presidential campaign in the southeast of the country. According to information published yesterday in latinus, León recorded the money deliveries in 2015.
One of the recordings was taken on Friday, June 26, 2015 at the home of President López Obrador’s brother. In it, David León told Pío López that he was giving him “one”, in reference to a million pesos, and gave him a brown paper bag.
“This is for the issue of supporting them in the movement here,” León tells Pío López. Seconds later David León comments that the contents of the bag are “for the starter”.
Three weeks earlier, on May 31, 2015, the two met in a restaurant and the meeting was also recorded by David León.
For his part, León Romero, who until the end of July was the head of the National Civil Protection Coordination, spoke last night on Twitter. He said that when the recordings were taken he was a consultant, not a public servant, and the way in which he “supported the Movement” was collecting resources, he assured that he did so “among acquaintances for holding assemblies and other activities.”
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