Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, claimed during an interview that aired on Sunday that he has ended corruption in Mexico and that the hundreds of political assassinations that are carried out every year in his country are not a threat to democracy.
AMLO made the claims during a “60 Minutes” interview about the crisis on the U.S. southern border and about the Mexican drug cartels.
The left-wing news program noted that AMLO takes a “bare knuckle brawls with the press” which it said was in “sharp contrast to the softer approach he’s taken with the drug cartels.”
AMLO claimed that his “hugs not bullets” method for dealing with the cartels has worked out “very well,” even though violence remains high and the cartels have grown in size.
When asked about the more than 30,000 murders that happen in Mexico every year, AMLO claimed that the Mexican…
