Mexico’s ex-president accuses US of plotting to weaken governing party

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says Washington is using investigations into governors and propaganda to boost rivals

Mexico's former president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has accused US officials of trying to weaken the governing party to strengthen the opposition, amid rising tensions between the two countries over Washington's investigations into several Mexican governors.

Some US officials are plotting to weaken Morena and strengthen the rightwing opposition in Mexico with the aim of restoring a subservient, corrupt, mafia-like, and cruel government," Lopez Obrador wrote in a lengthy letter posted on X on Wednesday.