The New York Times (NYT) is preparing to publish a report on a recent investigation by the United States government into alleged drug trafficking funding in the campaign of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).

This was revealed by López Obrador himself during his morning press conference on Thursday, February 22.

During Thursday’s morning press conference, AMLO informed that the NYT sent a questionnaire to Jesús Ramírez Cuevas, the presidential spokesperson, to get the government’s stance.

López Obrador said that the Times “sent an ultimatum” to Jesús Ramírez Cuevas to get the answers, which is why the president chose to answer the questions during his conference.

New investigation involves AMLO’s sons

According to what AMLO pointed out during his conference, the report that The New York Times is making is based on a new investigation being carried out by the United States government on alleged drug trafficking financing in his 2018 presidential campaign.

López Obrador discredited the journalistic work of the Times, calling it a pasquinade and revealed that the new investigation would involve his sons.

“What I am saying is that this newspaper, The New York Times, is nothing but a pasquinade and they didn’t like it (that AMLO gave an interview to another media) because yesterday the correspondent sends Jesús (Ramírez) a questionnaire, but in a tone that you will now see as threatening, arrogant, letting us know that they are conducting an investigation with information from the DEA (…) Where people linked to me received money, not in 2006, but in ’18 (2018) even that money was given to my sons and that they gave, I believe, until 5 in the afternoon, an ultimatum to Jesús to answer what we are going to see now, we are going to answer this morning,” the president noted.

This investigation adds to what was already published by journalist Tim Golden in ProPublica about the alleged donations of money from organized crime, particularly the Sinaloa Cartel, to the presidential campaign of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in 2006.

The investigation, based on interviews with a dozen U.S. and Mexican officials and government documents, points out that the Sinaloa Cartel, led at the time by Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, contributed two million dollars to López Obrador’s campaign.

The funds would have been delivered in exchange for the promise that, if he were to become President, AMLO would allow the criminal operations of drug traffickers.

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