AMLO announces that he will ask Biden to free Assange

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said today that during his visit to Washington next month he will ask his American counterpart, Joe Biden, for the release of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, for whom the British justice authorized the extradition of USA

"I am aware that it goes against hard groups in the United States, as in all countries, but humanism must prevail. Mexico opens the doors to Assange in the event that it is decided to release him. There are mechanisms to do so." , said the president, in the morning conference on Tuesday.

López Obrador claimed the importance of defending the rights and freedom of expression, in this case of what he defined as one of the best journalists in the world today,

During his conference, he was questioned about his upcoming visit to Washington and Assange, to which he said that, as he did with then-President Donald Trump, he will endorse the request with Biden. “Many don't know that what he did was an unorthodox investigation. He collected cables and reports from US embassies where there was talk of acts of interventionism and crimes committed, of flagrant violations of human rights. Not only texts, but images”.

He showed a video of the assassination of journalists in Iraq by US Air Force pilots, one of the most sensitive issues that Assange spread at the time. For this reason, after the British justice authorized his extradition to the United States, López Obrador questioned himself: “And freedoms? Are we going to remove the statue of liberty from New York? Are we going to continue talking about democracy? Are we going to continue talking about protecting human rights and freedom of expression? Propose that if I am going to ask President Biden to address this matter.

Shortly before, he had ratified his respect for the president of the United States with whom, in addition to the issues that matter to both the United States government and the Mexican government that have to do with our peoples, we are going to talk with President Joe Biden about issues associated with the continent, and the situation in other regions of the world. Talk about experiences that have to do not only with the material, but also with the mystical, not only with the material”.