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WORLD NEWS Saturday 9 January 2021

Mexico leader condemns Twitter, Facebook for blocking Trump

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mex- Face(book). I don't agree works."
ico's president on Thursday with that, I don't accept Facebook and Instagram
condemned the decision that," López Obrador said. said Thursday that they will
by social media platforms "How can you censor bar Trump from posting at
to block the accounts someone: 'Let's see, I, as least until the inaugura-
of U.S. President Donald the judge of the Holy Inqui- tion of President-elect Joe
Trump. sition, will punish you be- Biden. Twitter imposed a 12-
President Andrés Manuel cause I think what you're hour lockdown of Trump's
López Obrador at the same saying is harmful,'" López account, and the president
time declined to condemn Obrador said in an exten- used his restored assess to
the assault by Trump sup- sive, unprompted discourse post a video Thursday.
porters on the U.S. Capitol on the subject. "Where is López Obrador also said
on Wednesday, citing his the law, where is the regu- he was not planning to at-
policy of not interfering in lation, what are the norms? tend Biden's inauguration.
other countries' affairs. He This is an issue of govern- Earlier, he refrained from
said only that he regretted ment, this is not an issue for congratulating Biden on
the loss of lives. private companies." his election victory until af-
But López Obrador, who is Presidential spokesman ter the Electoral College
seen as friendly to Trump, Jesús Ramírez doubled vote in mid-December. The
was quick to criticize what down later in the day, writ- Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gives his reg- Mexican leader's only trip
ularly scheduled morning press conference known as "La Ma-
he called the censorship of ing in his Twitter account ñanera" at the National Palace in Mexico City, Friday, Dec. 18, abroad so far in his presi-
the U.S. president. that "Facebook's decision 2020. dency was to visit Trump in
"I don't like anybody being to silence the current lead- Associated Press Washington in July to cel-
censored or taking away er of the United States calls ebrate the implementation
from the the right to post for a debate on freedom change of information on the role of the companies of the Mexico-U.S.-Canada
a message on Twitter or of expression, the free ex- the web, democracy and that administer (social) net- trade agreement.q

9 killed in attack on wake in Mexico's Guanajuato state

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nine said the attack appears to fight off a takeover by
people were killed and one to have been carried out the insurgent Jalisco cartel
wounded when gunmen by the Jalisco New Gen- in 2017.
opened fire at a wake the eration Cartel against the Authorities captured the
central Mexican state of dead man's family. The leader of the Santa Rosa
Guanajuato, officials said. killers apparently believed de Lima gang in August,
Public safety officials in they were linked to the rival but the violence has con-
the city of Celaya said in Santa Rosa de Lima gang, tinued. Saucedo said that
a statement the gunmen even though many may the Sinaloa cartel has ap-
arrived late Thursday night not have been. parently entered into a kind
and opened fire on a group "At that wake, a lot of inno- of proxy war to prevent a
of people. The victims were cent people died," Sauce- Jalisco victory in the state,
standing outside a home do said. sending arms, money and
in a low-income neighbor- Guanajuato is at the center hired killers to support Santa
hood where a wake was of the bloody turf war be- Rosa de Lima and other lo-
being held for a young tween drug cartels acting cal gangs. That same kind Bloodstains and bullet holes mark the front of a home, after
gunmen opened fire the previous night on mourners at a wake
man who himself had been through local gangs. State of proxy war made the bor- outside, on the outskirts of Celaya, Guanajuato state, Mexico,
gunned down nearby a authorities did not immedi- der city of Ciudad Juárez a Friday, Jan. 8, 2021.
couple of days before. ately confirm which gang killing ground in the years Associated Press
Images from the scene was responsible for the kill- around 2010.
showed bodies strewn in ings. Thousands have been The Santa Rosa gang grew lines and refineries and rob- and pipelines over the
the street. killed in Guanajuato since up in a farming hamlet of bing freight from trains. But last two years, the gang
Guanajuato-based secu- Santa Rosa de Lima, a lo- the same name by stealing after authorities stepped turned to extortion and
rity analyst David Saucedo cal gang, began a turf war fuel from government pipe- up security around trains kidnapping.q