Mexican president calls opponents foreign agents, traitors

By MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press

MEXICO CITY (AP) — In a bid to stoke nationalism and justify his policies, Mexico’s president has increasingly taken to calling his opponents “traitors” and accused them of working for the foreign governments. The issue came to a head last week when President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tried to side-step court challenges to one of his pet projects by declaring a tourist train line an issue of national security. Analyst Alejandro Hope said López Obrador is starting to sound like Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, calling anyone who opposes him a foreign agent. Hope notes the accusations “are crossing dangerous lines.”