President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador complained to Vice President Kamala Harris that USAID funding to Mexico should be suspended due to election interference.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The sources support that Lopez Obrador protested USAID-linked funding as election interference in May 2021, just before a call with then-VP Harris, but they do not show him complaining to Harris about it. The record also shows he asked the US to stop funding specific opposition or anti-corruption groups, not to suspend USAID funding to Mexico as a whole.
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… Now, under Mexican law, a foreign government can't make donations to a political group, sovereignty issues, of course, but an NGO, by definition, that's what an NGO is: non-governmental organizations. They're corporate entities. At one point, President Oberdorff complained to, at that time, VP Kamala, that USAID has to suspend funding to Mexico because they're interfering too much in elections. Open Government Partnership, in 2011, they had a global summit in Mexico in 2015, and that was the same, almost a coup, the group that put her, that put Sochi in Mexico City, and then, of course, um, Seinbaum a little bit later. …
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Contradicts. Lopez Obrador's complaint was a diplomatic note and public remarks directed at the US government, and a Spanish-language report says the matter apparently was not raised during his meeting with Harris, so the claim that he complained to Harris is not borne out.[2][3]
Contradicts. The sources describe requests to stop or clarify funding for specific political or civil-society groups, not a call to suspend USAID funding to Mexico, so the 'suspend funding to Mexico' element is overstated.[1][2][4]
Supports. Reuters (2021) reports Lopez Obrador sent a diplomatic note asking the US to explain USAID-linked funding for Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, calling it interference that promotes a form of coup, and this came hours before a virtual meeting with Harris.[2]
Context. Lopez Obrador made similar complaints to Biden in 2023 about USAID funding opposition groups, which shows the broader pattern of the interference allegation.[1][5]
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 4 not rated
- 1Mexico president asks Biden to stop USAID funding opposition groupsreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts, context
- 2Mexican president makes formal complaint to U.S. ahead of Harris callnasdaq.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts, supports
- 3Antes de reunión con Harris, AMLO acusa a EEUU de injerencialmtonline.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4AMLO laments US silence on complaint about funding ' ...mexiconewsdaily.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5Mexico's AMLO looks to spearhead indignation at US 'interventionism'lemonde.fr · not rated · cited for: context
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