MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador denied on Wednesday (Mar 6) that he was a member of the communist party in the 1970s, ...
MEXICO CITY: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador denied on Wednesday that he was a member of the communist party in the 1970s, as alleged in intelligence files that his own government recently ordered declassified.
"A lot of things in are invented. For example, it says I was a member of the communist party ... and that I supported and gave money to that party," Lopez Obrador told a news conference.At the time, Lopez Obrador was a member of the then-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party , which governed Mexico as a one-party state for seven decades.He later broke with the PRI to help launch the left-wing Party of the Democratic Revolution , then founded his own party, Morena, in 2014.
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