Former Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador (AMLO) has stepped back into the political arena with a public letter defending his successor, Claudia Sheinbaum, and a slate of cartel-linked politicians recently named by the U.
S. government, while urging a return of the Donald Trump he claims to have known during President Trumps first term.
In the missive, Lpez Obrador insists that accusations against members of his ruling MORENA party are purely political, alleging they are designed to bolster opposition factions rather than uphold the rule of law. As reported by Breitbart, he portrays unnamed far-right actors as scheming to reinstall the same corrupt establishment figures who, in his telling, would benefit other countries rather than Mexico.
The letter, circulated widely on social media and amplified by MORENA loyalists, conspicuously sidesteps the detailed criminal indictment targeting his close ally, Sinaloa Governor Rubn Rocha Moya. Lpez Obrador offers no substantive response to the serious cartel-related charges against Rocha Moya, nor to the mounting public allegations implicating two additional governors and multiple MORENA officials in organized crime.
He likewise ignores the growing body of evidence, documented over years, that senior MORENA figures have been tied to cartel financing and illicit campaign support. He also fails to acknowledge that, under his partys rule, violence has exploded to historic levels across Mexicolevels so extreme that even manipulated or false government stats can not hide the grim reality on the ground.
In the letter, AMLO paints a flattering portrait of President Trump during his first term, asserting that the Trump he dealt with was a reasonable man who was a friend to Mexico, and together they were able to avoid many conflicts. He points to cooperation on immigration as proof of that partnership, claiming that together they were able to deal with it, yet omits that his own policies enabled human smuggling and trafficking networks that turned mass migration into one of the cartels most lucrative enterprises and fueled the humanitarian crisis that helped propel Trumps electoral mandate.
Lpez Obrador further recalls that he and the old Trump worked jointly on markets and tariffs, as well as cattle, presenting this as evidence of a pragmatic cross-border relationship. What he does not concede is his responsibility for allowing the New World Screwworm to enter and spread throughout Mexicoan invasive threat that, as Breitbart Texas has reported, has now crossed into Texas and is endangering the states entire ranching economy, a core pillar of American agricultural strength.
AMLO now claims that the far right has President Trumps ear in his second term and pleads with him to reject those advisers and revert to the leader he remembers from the first. His appeal, however, reads less like a principled defense of sovereignty and more like an attempt to shield a ruling party entangled with cartel interests from long-overdue scrutiny by a U.S. administration determined to confront transnational crime rather than appease it.
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