Thread by @KurtHackbarth

1. *BREAKING* #Mexico has sent a diplomatic note to the #UnitedStates asking it to clarify its financing of the political opposition by means of donations from @USAID and @NEDemocracy to the organization "Mexicanos contra la Corrupción y la impunidad."

2. At #AMLO's morning press conference, he laid out a graphic detailing some $36,344,384 pesos ($1.8 million US) in donations since 2018.

jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/05/…

3. The note was prompted by the following investigation by the magazine @contralinea, whose correspondent raised the subject at yesterday's press conference.

contralinea.com.mx/gobierno-de-eu…

4. According to the journalist @manuelhborbolla, who has also investigated the matter, #USAID has donated $2.25 million dollars to the organization, and #NED, a further $90,000.

https://twitter.com/manuelhborbolla/status/1378032728113881088

5. MCCI is not directly a political org- that'd be too obvious. Instead, it is a non-profit that purports to fight corruption. As I've written about in detail, however (jacobinmag.com/2021/01/midter…) its leader, Claudio X. González, is organizing & financing the opposition to #MORENA.

6. González and Co. are also behind the lawfare strategy that has sought to gum up AMLO's entire agenda in the courts, including his energy reforms, the labeling law for processed foods, the cancellation of the Texcoco airport, and more (see: jacobinmag.com/2021/04/mexica…)

7. With a convenient indirectness, the US is financing an organization whose leader is actively opposing the government in ways that benefit the US itself. This is a violation of the Mexican Constitution and amounts to open interference in the politics of a sovereign nation.

8. Unfortunately, this has been and continues to be standard operating procedure for the US - by means of organizations such as USAID and NED - throughout the region. /END