Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday said he was right to compare a prominent Mexican Jewish figure to Adolf Hitler for his political mindset, shrugging off a protest from the country's Jewish community.
Lopez Obrador on Wednesday said advertising executive and political analyst Carlos Alazraki, a critic of the president, was "Hitlerian," prompting the Mexican Jewish community to issue a statement rejecting the remarks as "unacceptable."
In a statement, the Jewish Community of Mexico rejected the use of the term "Hitlerian" to refer to anyone: "Any comparison with the most bloodthirsty regime in history is regrettable and unacceptable."Some Mexican opposition politicians also took offense. "The President's comment against Carlos Alazraki not only violates freedom of expression, but is unworthy and out of all proportion.
"This is the essence of Alazraki's publicity or propaganda strategy," said the president, who has regularly invoked Goebbels when seeking to discredit his critics. Alazraki told Reuters he was at a loss to understand the president's comments. He said his remarks in the clip were taken out of context, and that he was illustrating that to compete with MORENA, one had to use propaganda as the party did.
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