translated from Spanish: I have never stigmatized journalists, I see them as adversaries: AMLO

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that he has never used a language that stigmatises journalists, and that in his morning conferences there is a “circular dialogue”, and that he only uses his right of replication.
“I have never used a language that stigmatizes journalists, I want to stigmatize corruption here what there is always a circular dialogue before it was not customary that the press was subjected, with honorable exceptions now there are full freedoms and the only thing what is done here is to inform citizens,” he told journalists members of an international mission in Mexico to learn about the situation on freedom of expression.
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One of the mission members asked López Obrador if he was committed to supporting the role of journalism in society even if it is critical of the government. 
“I’ve always respected them all. I see them not as enemies but as adversaries,” the representative replied.
Questions at their morning lectures by media representatives have unleashed in their 11 months of qualifying rule such as: journalism, fifi press, conservatives, chayoteros, maiceados and pointing them out sarcasticly as champions of transparency and honesty.
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Since March, the Article 19 organization has warned that the president’s anti-press expressions can incentivize attacks against journalists and increase the level of vulnerability and risk they face in the most dangerous country to exercise freedom expression in America, where only in the six-yearly life of Enrique Peña Nieto 47 murders were documented.
“But we don’t use offensive language, we’re respectful, we exercise our rights of rebuttal and as you say we have rights to manifest ourselves, there’s going to be no censorship for anyone,” the representative said on Wednesday.
He added that before there was no plurality, that the press was at the service of the regime but “now it is different, now everyone expresses theself. We have the joy of having social networks so the mainstream press, which set the agenda, destroyed opponents, silenced what was suited to the regime, applauded, silent does not feel comfortable”.
The representative said that he has suffered the dirty war of national and international media.
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“For journalists all our respect, all our admiration and can be any journalist of the most contrary to us, rude of those who slander the most of those who insult and never answer,” López Obrador replied.
There’s no espionage in our government
López Obrador said his government does not use Pegasus software, or other mechanisms to spy on journalists, and pledged to check whether they are still operating the devices that operated in past administrations.
“We’re not involved in it, it was decided here that no one would be chased. We in opposition were spied on,” he replied at his press conference where he was asked about the use of espionage programs.
“We have not purchased listening equipment, first because of the corruption involved in buying such equipment; there are unused equipment that was purchased in the previous government,” the federal representative said.
Thus López Obrador responded to the question of a member of the Network on the Defense of Digital Rights (R3D) who came as part of an international mission that is in Mexico to know the situation regarding freedom of expression.
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Original source in Spanish