“As Donald Trump says, that’s all fake news,” said alleged members of the Northeast Cartel as they slammed President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for alleged narco-campaigning.
(CDMX – Times Media Mexico) – A video was broadcast on social media in which alleged members of the Cartel del Noreste defending AMLO and claimed that the New York Times report is false, as is the hooded man in Latinus claiming that Los Zetas financed López Obrador’s presidential campaigns in 2006 and 2018.
The group leader, hooded and reading a statement apparently from a telephone, said: “We clarify that the facts in which the Zetas organizations were linked to the campaigns of the current president of the Republic are not true, and we clarify that Commander 42 does not know this hooded man who identifies himself as Celso Ortega Jiménez (supposed leader of ‘Los Ardillos’). He never spoke to him and even less about this subject.”(SIC)
<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet” data-media-max-width=”560″><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>A video was broadcast on social media in which alleged members of the Cartel del Noreste defending AMLO and claimed that the New York Times report is false, as is the hooded man in Latinus claiming that Los Zetas financed López Obrador's presidential campaigns in 2006 and 2018.
The leader of the armed commando mentioned that López Obrador did not receive help from “Los Zetas, nor Z42” to finance his 2006 and 2018 presidential campaigns. “We did not get involved; we do not get involved. We will not get involved in politics. As Donald Trump says, it is all fake news. It is illogical what was published in the Latinus article”. Since 2006, Nazario Moreno, aka ‘El Chayo,’ was an ally of Los Zetas, so he could not have had hostility with ‘El Z-42’. How could Ortega Jiménez be sent to bring him to Nueva Italia, which was under the control of Los Zetas? What was said by the hooded man who claims to be Celso Ortega Jiménez, leader of Los Ardillos, is inconsistency on the part of these people, or maybe it is not even him.
He ended the message by using a word not very common in the Mexican lexicon: “escisión“ (a noun that means to split) – “At that time, this group was a “split” from the Beltrán Leyva.”
Since this statement, thousands have taken to social networks to comment. The vast majority consider this supposed narco-message as further proof of the closeness of AMLO’s government to the cartels, as never before in the history of Mexico has an organized crime group come out in defense of a president.
