Controversy Simmers as Pena Nieto Denies NY Times' Accountability Criticisms The Yucatan Times
go to original January 7, 2016

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has shot back in response to New York Times criticisms of his “resistance to accountability.” (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

An editorial published Monday by The New York Times accusing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto of “stubbornly” resisting accountability when it comes to the scandals pervading the country has prompted a quick reply from the Peña Nieto administration.

Rebuffing the paper’s claims, the Office of Mexico’s Presidency issued a yet-to-be-published letter in response to The New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal.

Paulo Carreño King, the Foreign Press and Country Brand Coordinator for Peña Nieto, stated that “accountability, in fact, has been one of the top priorities of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s Administration,” according to the letter he issued to Forbes‘ Dolia Estevez.

The Times said that the Mexican leader will not be remembered as the president who accomplished a better future for Mexico — as he vowed to do during his 2012 bid for the presidency — “but as a politician who skirted accountability at every turn.”

“On Mr. Peña Nieto’s watch, the Mexican government has swiftly and systematically whitewashed ugly truths and played down scandals,” The Times wrote.

...The paper emphasized three major causes of Peña Nieto’s downfall: drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán’s prison break in July 2015, the lavish home the Mexican president built for his wife using a government contractor, and the botched government investigation into the disappearance of 43 rural students in the state of Guerrero in 2014.

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