The fire at a Mexican migrant holding center that killed dozens has triggered recriminations inside and outside President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government, exposing tensions in his party ahead of next year's presidential election
Thirty-nine people died in the facility in the border city of Ciudad Juarez opposite El Paso, Texas. Lopez Obrador initially said the blaze was started by detained migrants protesting their impending deportation.
"The whole government is to blame here," said Rosa Maria Gonzalez, an opposition lawmaker who heads the lower house of Congress migration committee. She called it "a crime" not to intervene as migrants were engulfed in smoke and flame. Lopez Obrador has weathered past crises, enduring temporary dips in his popularity, which remains far stronger than that of most leaders of major economies.
Still, in a radio interview on Tuesday, Interior Minister Lopez, a leading presidential contender from the ruling National Regeneration Movement , said he was "not the person in charge of managing the migration system." Describing the remarks as a "blame game" between Lopez and Ebrard, former Mexican deputy foreign minister Andres Rozental said while the Foreign Ministry did oversee international discussions on migration policy, the Interior Ministry and INM had "always" been in charge of domestic holding centers.
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