Amlo ridiculed for saying Mexico’s feminist movement began two years ago

Backlash after Mexican president bizarrely claims movement had been formed to oppose his administration

Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has picked yet another fight with the country's burgeoning feminist movement, saying it only started two years ago" and bizarrely claiming it had been formed to oppose his administration.

Asked on Wednesday about a march in Mexico City for International Safe Abortion Day, the president spoke conspiratorially of the women's movement, alleging it had become conservative" - a term he uses to deride his critics.