Zedryk RazielMicaela VarelaMexico – Jun 04, 2026 – 09:36CESTShare on WhatsappShare on FacebookShare on TwitterDesplegar Redes SocialesPrefer EL PAÍS on GoogleCompartir:WhatsappFacebookTwitterBlueskyLinkedinCopy linkFormer Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador reappeared on the public stage on Wednesday with a message in which he harshly criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s pressure on Mexico under the guise of combating “narco-terrorism” and illegal immigration. López Obrador, who retired from politics after leaving the presidency in 2024, has given his full support to his successor Claudia Sheinbaum against Washington’s interference and its attempt, as he put it, to weaken Morena, the leftist political party and movement he founded and which the current president continues to lead.López Obrador’s gesture comes just a few days after Sheinbaum voiced her strongest protest against Trump’s pressure and threats to Mexican sovereignty. The former president expressed surprise at the Republican’s attitude, which he says differs from the one he had during his first term in the U.S. presidency, when both politicians were serving in their countries’ executive branches. “Why has President Trump changed so much?” López Obrador asks in the statement he posted on his long-dormant X account.Late last year, López Obrador stated that he would only emerge from his self-imposed retirement if certain conditions were met, one of which was threats to Mexico’s sovereignty. The former president has decided to return to the limelight at a time of enormous bilateral tension over security and the fight against the drug cartels. The Trump administration has leveled serious accusations of alleged ties to drug traffickers against Morena governors backed by López Obrador, as well as against his most trusted former aides.The most explosive case involves Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha and several members of his top aides, who are accused of collaborating with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s c
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