Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has bristled over his authorities being accused by the US State Division of human rights abuses, dismissing his nation’s neighbors to the north as “liars.”

Talking at a press briefing on Tuesday in Oaxaca, Mexico, Lopez Obrador responded angrily to Monday’s State Division report on human rights. President Joe Biden’s administration claimed there have been credible studies of illegal killings by Mexican authorities, in addition to pressured disappearances, torture and in any other case inhumane remedy of civilians. The US additionally chided Mexico for corruption, rampant crime and low charges of offenses being prosecuted.

Requested by a reporter in regards to the accusations, Lopez Obrador mentioned, “It’s not true. They’re liars.” He added, “It’s not value getting indignant about.”

That’s simply how they’re.” The US believes “it’s the federal government of the world.”

Lopez Obrador made his feedback earlier than a scheduled assembly in a while Tuesday with former US Secretary of State John Kerry, now Biden’s local weather envoy. Relations with Washington have soured in latest weeks amid a spate of kidnappings of US residents in northern Mexico, together with a case by which two folks had been killed by a gaggle related to a drug cartel.

The Mexican president has steered that an “anti-Mexico” conservative ingredient within the US authorities has infected tensions between the international locations and used the deadly kidnapping incident to make assaults on his nation’s security file. “Mexico is safer than america,” he informed reporters final week in response to the controversy.

State Division spokesman Vedant Patel responded to Lopez Obrador’s criticism on Tuesday by defending the US allegations towards Mexico’s authorities. “The reported involvement of members of Mexican police, army and different authorities establishments in severe acts of corruption and illegal arbitrary killings stay a severe problem for Mexico, and that’s why they had been highlighted in our report.”

The State Division is remitted by Congress to provide its report on Mexican human rights yearly, Patel mentioned, including that the US has home challenges of its personal. “Now we have by no means been ones to point that we’re the federal government of the world or some sort of edict like that.”