Mexican president lashes out at EU ‘lies’ over his media-bashing rhetoric

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was urged to tone down his rhetoric by MEPs after a spate of journalist murders - he did the opposite

Mexico's government has lashed out at the corruption, lies and hypocrisy" of the European parliament after its members urged its populist president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, to rein in his media-bashing rhetoric after the murders of at least six Mexican journalists.

Mexico's press corps has been plunged into mourning this year by a succession of killings targeting media workers in what was already one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists.