The necessary presidential demarcation

By Adela Navarro

In recent days, an investigative journalistic piece signed by Tim Golden and published in the U.S. investigative journalism collective ProPublica, put in the public eye the alleged financing of the 2006 electoral campaign by drug traffickers to the team of the current President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

Entitled Did drug traffickers give millions of dollars to Mexican President Lopez Obrador's first campaign, the report is introduced by text that summarizes: "Witnesses told the DEA that the money was given in exchange for a promise that a future Lopez Obrador government would tolerate the cartel's operations.

Golden is a renowned U.S. journalist, a Pulitzer Prize laureate with The New York Times on his resume. According to his statements, researching the information to write the piece took him months. Interviews with DEA agents, U.S. officials, contacts in Mexico and in that country, and the reading of files that accredit what he presents in the text.