The incident provoked international controversy. [[Mexican]] President [[Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador]] decried the effort to interfere in the 2024 presidential election. “This is completely anti-[[democratic]]… Why not allow the people to decide?” Lopez Obrador stated that the United States should stop trying to “be the government of the world.”<ref>https://joemessina.com/2023/03/mexican-president-slams-biden-admin-for-trying-to-arrest-trump-so-he-cant-run-in-2024/</ref> | The incident provoked international controversy. [[Mexican]] President [[Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador]] decried the effort to interfere in the 2024 presidential election. “This is completely anti-[[democratic]]… Why not allow the people to decide?” Lopez Obrador stated that the United States should stop trying to “be the government of the world.”<ref>https://joemessina.com/2023/03/mexican-president-slams-biden-admin-for-trying-to-arrest-trump-so-he-cant-run-in-2024/</ref> |