Antonio Baranda and Claudia Guerrero/Agencia Reforma
Monday, January 16, 2023 | 10:43
Mexico City.- The payment to journalists to ask questions at the morning conference with the aim of attacking the Quintana Roo Prosecutor and Governor Mara Lezama was denounced by a youtuber in the National Palace.
The youtuber pointed out that the businessman Carlos Mimenza would be behind the alleged payments, since – according to what he said – he is dedicated to buying media, hackers and hitmen.
According to what was denounced, Carlos Mimenza uses the pain of the mothers of disappeared children to attack the authorities by holding marches and sit-ins, allying himself with foundations and supposed activists.
These demonstrations have been mainly to attack Prosecutor Óscar Montes Oca, since the youtuber mentioned that a video has recently circulated where the Prosecutor and his close circle are threatened with death.
According to the defendant, the businessman Mimenza buys reporters so that they come in the morning to discredit incorruptible people, such as the Prosecutor or the Governor, people who get in the way of Mimenza to exact revenge, in addition to continuing to maintain their businesses.
Faced with these remarks, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador commented that it should be Governor Lezama who attends to the situation and applauded the fact that the payment to reporters is aired.
“In the case of Quintana Roo, what has to be done? Let the Governor in whom we have full confidence take care of it. And a general recommendation is that we not limit ourselves when it comes to these matters, not prohibit the express everything, but everyone assumes their responsibility.
“The authority is the one that is going to decide and, in the case of Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama, who is a good Governor, is going to act. It is good that everything is aired, just that we seek to be as respectful as possible and that there is no censorship, that we just take care of ourselves,” he added.
