Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad:
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Aug. 25
The Washington Post says the U.S. is correct to weigh in as Mexico’s rule of law is danger
This clash was long overdue. Last Thursday, the United States ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, published a statement lamenting President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s plan to emasculate the Mexican judiciary by ramming through “reform” legislation before his term ends Sept. 30. Mr. Salazar called the plan “a major risk to the functioning of Mexico’s democracy.”
AMLO, as the Mexican president is known, immediately fired back. At a news conference Friday, he denounced Salazar’s “unfortunate, imprudent statement,” which amounted to “a lack of respect for our sovereignty.” The Mexican foreign ministry sent a letter chastising the United States for intruding on topics “that are strictly the internal affairs of the Mexican State.”
They are not, though. At stake are judicial independence and the rule of law in a…