President Sheinbaum ponders a lawsuit against Elon Musk

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is considering ineligible enactment against Elon Musk implicit accusations connected his X level that nexus her to cause trafficking and cartel leaders.

The world’s wealthiest antheral posted connected X that Sheinbaum is “just saying what her cartel bosses archer her to say,” portion sharing a video clip of Sheinbaum’s greeting property league astatine the National Palace, successful which she says that “returning to the warfare connected drugs is not an option.”

President Sheinbaum stands adjacent to a motion speechmaking “Fentanyl kills you” arsenic she announced Tuesday a caller programme titled “Young People Transforming Mexico,” portion of her argumentation of bringing culture, education, occupation opportunities and sports to Mexican younker to discourage them from turning to crime. (Galo Cañas/Cuartoscuro)

Musk’s X station followed the convulsive events that took spot successful respective parts of occidental Mexico aft the sidesplitting connected Sunday of cartel person Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, one of the world’s astir wanted criminals. So successful effect, Musk was accusing the president of Mexico of taking orders from a cause lord her service had conscionable taken down.

Sheinbaum reacted to Musk’s station by saying that accusing her of starring a narco-government is “absurd.” 

“If it was absurd to accidental it before, it’s adjacent much truthful now,” the president said successful her greeting property conference. “It falls isolated connected its own. They don’t adjacent cognize what to invent, honestly. It’s laughable to work them.” 

She added that her ineligible squad is studying the anticipation of taking ineligible enactment and that thing is definite yet. 

Musks’ station echoes accusations made by U.S. President Donald Trump past twelvemonth claiming that Sheinbaum had nary power implicit the country, adjacent though helium regarded her arsenic a “brave woman.”

“The occupation is that she’s petrified by the cartels. They could region the president successful 2 minutes,” Trump said astatine the time, adding that “the cartels tally Mexico.”

Musk’s X station dovetailed with accusations of complicity with the cartels often hurled by absorption figures against incumbents, usually— though not ever — without evidence. 

Several legislators from the ruling Morena enactment instantly came to Sheinbaum’s defense, including Morena enactment president Luisa Alcalde.

“Wealth does not springiness motivation authority,” she wrote connected her authoritative societal media channels, adding that Musk should usage his level and X societal media web to combat cause consumption, addiction and disinformation.

Meanwhile, Senator Alejandro Murat defended Sheinbaum’s policy, adding that the subject cognition conducted Sunday “demonstrates that the Mexican equipped forces and information forces should not beryllium underestimated: they person acted with resilience and dedication, protecting some Mexican and American citizens,” helium said. 

With reports from Reuters and El Universal