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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | January 2006 
Obrador Accuses Fox of Failing to Fight Crime
 Newswire
| | Mexican presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a campaign rally on Thursday, January 26, 2006 in Tijuana, Mexico. Lopez Obrador, who was mayor of Mexico City until he left recently to run for president, is from the leftist PRD or Party of the Democratic Revolution, in English. (AP Photo/David Maung) |
Mexico City - Leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador accused President Vicente Fox of abandoning the fight against crime to work full time supporting his party's electoral candidate.
"Start working. Meet your responsibility, because you still have time left in office," said Lopez Obrador, of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, in a news conference in the crime-ridden Pacific coast city of Culiacan.
The comments came after a week of drug-related violence including a shoot-out in downtown Acapulco that left four dead and an incursion by drug traffickers in Mexican military uniforms into Texas.
Fox is barred by the constitution from running for re-election in the July race. But critics say he is openly supporting the candidate Felipe Calderon of his conservative National Action Party.
Fox "has made many declarations in favor of the candidate of his party and against ours," Lopez Obrador said. "Don't get involved Mr. President."
Most opinion polls place Lopez Obrador, who stepped down as mayor of Mexico City to run, in first place and Calderon in second for the presidential election. |
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