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Mexico City — Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador compares prominent Mexican figures politically with Adolf Hitler on Thursday to avoid protests from the country's Jewish community. Said that.
Lopez Obrador refused to say "unacceptable" to the Jewish community in Mexico on Wednesday, when Presidential critic, advertising executive and political analyst Carlos Arazraki, is a "human relian". He said he urged him to make a statement.
Lopez Obrador is in talks with opposition politicians who said Mexico is allowing undocumented immigrants from Venezuela at the new airport. He mentioned Arazuraki after the video was shown during a regular government press conference. The government has denied this.
"He is very conservative like Hitler," Lopez Obrador said Wednesday.
In a statement, the Mexican Jewish community refused to use the phrase "compared to the most bloodthirsty government in history is disappointing and unacceptable."
Hitler's Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War II.
Some Mexican opposition politicians have also launched an attack. "President's comments on Carlos Alazraqui not only violate freedom of speech, but are worthless and out of all proportions. It is very grotesque to call prominent members of the Jewish community" Hitrelian ". It's unusual, "opposition lawmaker Santiago Kriel said in a tweet.
On Thursday, Lopez Obrador returned to the issue at a regular news conference, stating that "Arazuraki is a follower of Hitler's ideas," and is the chief of Nazi propaganda. Lie to manipulate Joseph Goebbels and his public opinion.
"This is the essence of Arazraki's promotion or promotion strategy," said the president, who has regularly called Goebbels in an attempt to undermine the credibility of critics.
Lopez Obrador showed a short video clip of 2021. Arazraki said the secret to defeating the president's ruling Morena movement in elections is to use lies and publicity.
Arazraki told Reuters that he was at a loss to understand the president's comments. He said his remarks in the clip were out of context and explained that to compete with Morena, propaganda had to be used as the party did.
Arazraki also posted a video on Twitter condemning Lopez Obrador's remarks on Thursday, emphasizing opposition to his policy. He concludes by allowing him to insult the president, "because he doesn't know what he's doing."
Lopez Obrador observed a long-standing difference from Arazraki, but he expressed his respect for the Jewish community.
"I have very good friends in the Jewish community," he said. (Report by Valentine Hilaire and Dave Graham in Mexico City, edited by Matthew Lewis)
