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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), the president of Mexico, said that the Statue of Liberty in New York should be taken down if the U.S. goes ahead with plans to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks.
The politician from Mexico said this on July 4 during one of his morning news conferences.
Lopez Obrador said, "We need to start a campaign to take down the Statue of Liberty, which the French gave to New York and which is no longer a symbol of freedom."
AMLO said at his news conference that he would talk about the issue with Vice President Joe Biden when they meet again soon.
"It's about being a good person," he said. "They will be stained if they don't do it."
The Mexican politician has been a strong supporter of Assange and his work through Wikileaks to make secret documents public. Lopez Obrador has said that Assange is "the best journalist of our time" and that his prosecution is "a shame for the whole world."
Lopez Obrador was criticized for what he said about the Statue of Liberty in Mexico, where journalists are still being killed at a high rate.
En defensa de Assange, Andrés Manuel Farol de la Calle propone una campaña para desmontar la Estatua de la Libertad. Hoy, 4 de julio. 🙄#IndependenceDay2022 pic.twitter.com/n0BV5jrh9y
— Víctor Trujillo (@V_TrujilloM) July 4, 2022
Nueva Yor en este momento..... pic.twitter.com/u5ydQXMz9Z
— Pancho Apartidista 🕉 (@hcmuebles) July 4, 2022
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