June 25, 2021
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday that Nicaragua should not use repression or jail opponents, and that the people of the country should be able to make choices freely in elections.
Lopez Obrador said his country would comment on human rights whether in Nicaragua, where opponents have been jailed, or in Colombia, where police have been accused of excessive force against protesters.
“Rights should be guaranteed, there should be no repression, not in Nicaragua, not in Colombia, nor in any other country in the world,” Lopez Obrador said in response to a question from a reporter at a regular morning news conference.
(Reporting by Adriana Barrera and Raul Cortes; Writing by Stefanie Eschenbacher; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)
