Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador responded Thursday by saying he still doesn’t understand how Argentina voted for its current president, Javier Milei, who called him “ignorant” during a interview with CNN in Spanish. “Milei claimed I was ‘ignorant’ because I called him ‘conservative fascist’.
He is right: I still do not understand how the Argentinians, who are so intelligent, voted for someone who is not precise, who despises the people,” the Mexican leader said on his X account.
López Obrador reacted to the statements of Milei, who called the president of Mexico “ignorant” during an interview with the American channel CNN in Spanish, which will be broadcast on Sunday but of which the channel broadcast a preview on Wednesday. Milei, who also called Colombian President Gustavo Petro a “terrorist murderer,” justified his offensive expressions toward the two on Thursday by showing on his social media “some of the many attacks by AMLO (López Obrador)” and of the Colombian president.
The Mexican president has now reiterated that Milei “dared to accuse his compatriot (Pope) Francis of being ‘communist’ and ‘representative of Evil on earth’.” “When it comes to the most Christian pope and defender of the poor that I have ever known or heard of,” he argued.
The Mexican president concluded with a “Post scriptum: a hug to Gustavo Petro”. Unlike the Colombian government, which announced the expulsion of Argentine diplomats due to the exchange of statements, López Obrador has not announced measures and, in the past, has warned that he will not break relations with the Argentina despite its differences with Milei.
