translated from Spanish: Calderón is not persecuted politician, and Garcia Luna’s case is a matter for US: AMLO

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador assured that there is no political persecution against Felipe Calderón, as the former member accused a few days ago, and that he has no interference in the case that is being brought in the United States against the former Secretary of Public Security, Genaro García Luna.
At his morning conference on Friday, the president insisted that he has nothing against Calderon despite the clashes they have had.
“He’s mad at me, he says there’s political persecution, none of that I’m sorry I stole the presidency, he knows it but I don’t hate it,” the president said. 
He added that this anger should be against the U.S. authorities because what happens in the lawsuit against Garcia Luna belongs only to the judge of that country.
“No way I’m going to say to the U.S. judge ‘don’t investigate anymore, exonerate Garcia Luna’, I can’t do that, obviously that’s not a matter for the U.S. government (…) if you’re thinking I have influence even to decide what this New York justice is doing, then you’re already exaggerating,” he said. 
On August 10, former President Felipe Calderón denounced persecution by President López Obrador after he said that in his administration Mexico was a narcostate.
At the morning conference that day, the president spoke of Garcia Luna’s case and the alleged links between organized crime and the federal government.
“I get to talk about a drug dealer and I honestly thought back then that it was not right to classify the Mexican state that way, but then with all this that’s coming out because you can talk about a drug dealer because the government was taken,” the president said.
Later, in an interview with Joaquín López Dóriga, Felipe Calderón rejected these accusations and called the president’s words an offense to the country.
“It’s a political harassment by the president and his people against me, all of me, everything is Calderón is a desire for political rematch, you have to say it clearly and loudly,” he said.
The former president said that in his government he was the only one determined to face drug trafficking.
“I did not greet the mother of Chapo, I did not release criminals,” he said, alluding to the release of Ovid Guzman, son of Joaquin el ‘Chapo’ Guzmán.
He added that López Obrador made these statements to divert attention from other problems facing the country such as the death toll of COVID and the economic behavior resulting from the pandemic.
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Original source in Spanish