“Capturing a criminal can’t be worth more than people’s lives,” he said, adding that officials “did well” to free Ovidio Guzman. “We don’t want dead people, we don’t want war,” said Lopez Obrador, a veteran leftist who has advocated a less confrontational approach to tackling the gangs. “We have a humane president, a Christian president who in the end decided not to hurt Ovidio,” he told a news conference. A trenchant critic of past administrations, Lopez Obrador said previous government strategies had turned Mexico into a “graveyard” and that his critics wanted him to continue with it. Still, the murder tally in Mexico this year is on track to surpass last year’s record total of more than 29,000.

Source: bd News24 October 19, 2019 00:56 UTC