Mexican head of state plays joke on media, bluffs over finishing press conference By Reuters

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday fooled the media, claiming he was mosting likely to finish the day-to-day press conference that he has actually made use of to pillory movie critics and also control the nationwide information cycle.

Taking benefit of Dec. 28, Day of the Holy Innocents, a party connected with pranks in Mexico, Lopez Obrador opened his information instruction by claiming he would certainly in future hold just one meeting a week, at lunchtime on Wednesdays.

Adopting a line in raw comparison to what he commonly suggests, Lopez Obrador claimed with a straight face he had actually decided due to the fact that the top quality of public details was enhancing.

“The majority of the news media in the country are carrying out their duty professionally, there is accurate, real news, the media are objective,” he claimed.

However, around 40 mins later on he went back to an acquainted refrain, describing “conservative” media as “hypocrites” – after that kept in mind with a smile that he would certainly, as a matter of fact, remain to hold his early morning press conference as his right to respond.

“Do you really think we’re not going to have the morning conferences? All the subsidized conservative press would be rubbing its hands,” he claimed, including that the majority of the standard print and also program media in the nation protested him.

On social media sites, suspicion had actually welcomed the head of state’s news that he was major concerning finishing the meetings.

Before he confessed was a joke, a number of Mexico’s primary papers did not lug a tale on the front of their web sites concerning what would certainly have been a significant modification in plan.

Since taking workplace 2 years earlier, Lopez Obrador has actually made use of the meetings, which start at 7 a.m. and also can last over 2 hrs, to establish the political program and also take movie critics to job.