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Mexico Is Safer Than US: President Lopez Obrador Claims Over Recent US Killings

Mexico is safer than the United States claimed President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a week after two US citizens were killed and two kidnapped and later rescued in the border city of Matamoros.

The Mexican president said US travel warnings and reports of violence in Mexico were the results of a conspiracy by conservative politicians and U.S. media outlets to smear his administration.

Despite Obrador’s assurances that Mexico was safe for travel, the FBI confirmed last week that three other women from the small Texas town of Peñitas have been missing in Mexico since late February.

‘Mexico is safer than US’

Speaking at the daily press conference, the president said, “Mexico is safer than the United States.”

“There is no problem in travelling safely in Mexico,” he said.

Mexico’s nationwide homicide rate is about 28 per 100,000 inhabitants. By comparison, the U.S. homicide rate is barely one-quarter as high, at around 7 per 100,000.

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Do not travel advisory: US State Department

The president brushed off continued concern over the violence. Currently, the US State Department has “do not travel” advisories for six of Mexico’s 32 states plagued by drug cartel violence, and “reconsider travel” warnings for another seven states.

“This is a campaign against Mexico by these conservative politicians in the United States who do not want the transformation of our country to continue,” Obrador added.

The Mexican president included U.S. media outlets in the supposed conspiracy.

“These conservative politicians … dominate the majority of the news media in the United States,” he said.

Moreover, he said, “This violence is not a reality.” “It is pure, vile manipulation,” the president further added.

As if to undercut that statement, police in the industrial and farming state of Guanajuato reported that 8 people had been shot to death and another seven wounded in an attack on a nightclub over the weekend.

The attack late Saturday killed six men and two women at the club in the largely rural township of Apaseo El Grande, where rival cartels have been fighting for control for years.

Alina Khan

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