Or, if you are already a subscriber Sign in. Other options. Close drawer menu Financial Times International Edition. Search the FT Search. World Show more World. US Show more US. The man filmed giving his brother the cash was David Leon, who Lopez Obrador named head of Mexico's civil protection agency after assuming the presidency in December Leon stepped down from the government last August after a separate video was leaked of him handing money in to another brother of Lopez Obrador.
On that occasion, the president described the cash as contributions from supporters. Leon said on Twitter the money in the new video was a loan he had provided from his personal savings. But Mexico's leftist leader -- also known as AMLO -- dismissively compared the summit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, known for its eye-watering prices and elite chin-wagging.
The world's most powerful countries "increase their fuel production, at the same time that they hold summits for the protection of the environment," he said. We must fight the massive monstrous inequality that exists in the world, that's what I will tell the UN. However, Mexico is still the most dangerous country in the world for journalists ; and after Colombia, the second-most dangerous for land and environmental defenders.
According to government figures , poverty rates in Mexico increased from But the president did not mention the increase in poverty in his own country in his remarks at the UN. He now covers immigration, social justice movements and multilateral negotiations for several media outlets in the United States, Europe and Mexico.
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