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Oscar Lopez in Mexico City

Mexico’s president says he would support peace agreement with cartels

Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaking during a press conference in Mexico City.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaking during a press conference in Mexico City. Photograph: Mexican Presidency/AFP/Getty Images

Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has said he would support an agreement with some of the nation’s most powerful and violent cartels in order to stop the bloodshed that has overwhelmed the country.

The comments from López Obrador, or Amlo as he is commonly known, came after an activist searching for her missing brother published an open letter directed at 10 organized crime groups calling for them to stop the practice of forced disappearance, where a person is not just killed but completely erased, their body dissolved in acid or burnt to ash.

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