The Mexican president calls on his American counterpart to end Washington's "contempt" for the Latin continent

The discovery of secret documents stored in a Biden office since the Obama administration

The President of Mexico receives his American counterpart.

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Lawyers for US President Joe Biden announced yesterday the discovery of secret government documents in a private office, since Biden was Vice President Barack Obama last fall, according to CNN, while Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador demanded, His American counterpart, at the start of a bilateral summit in Mexico City, demanded that the United States end its “contempt” for Latin America.

CBS said that Attorney General Merrick Garland has assigned the US Attorney General in Chicago to review the documents, which have been classified as classified.

The network quoted two sources, which it described as insiders, that there are approximately 10 documents in the center, and said that the FBI is also involved in the investigation of the US Attorney General.

Biden's lawyers say they found the government materials in November, during the closing of an office at the Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, in Washington, D.C., that Biden used during his relationship with the University of Pennsylvania, where he was professor emeritus from 2017 to 2019.

"The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be records of the Obama-Biden administration, including a small number of classified documents," said Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Biden, in a statement reported by Reuters.

"The documents were discovered when the president's personal attorneys were packing files in a locked safe, preparing to vacate office space at the Ben Biden Center in Washington, DC," he added.

"The president used this space periodically from mid-2017 until the beginning of the 2020 campaign," he continued. On the day of this discovery, November 2, 2022, he "notified the White House Counsel's Office to the National Archives, which received the materials the next morning."

"These documents were discovered by the president's attorney," Sauber added, stressing that "the documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the archives." For the Obama-Biden administration, the archive is appropriately in possession of it.”

CNN said the materials included some top-secret files with the tag "segmented sensitive information," also known as SCI, used for highly sensitive information obtained from intelligence sources.

The source told the network that after the discovery, Biden's lawyers immediately contacted the National Archives and Records Administration, which began looking into the matter.

The source said that the Biden team cooperated with the administration, which later viewed the situation as a mistake due to the lack of documentation guarantees.

In November, the Archives sent a referral to the Department of Justice to look into the matter, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.

The discovery of the material comes as private investigator Jack Smith investigates former President Donald Trump for possible mishandling of classified records at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Federal investigators have recovered at least 325 classified documents from Trump as part of their investigation.

On the other hand, Mexican President Joe Biden demanded that the United States end its “contempt” for Latin America, as Lopez Obrador told reporters, addressing Biden, “It is time to end this oblivion, this abandonment, this contempt for Latin America and the Caribbean, which contradicts and the good-neighbor policy of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's giant of freedom.

He added, "President Biden, you hold the key to opening and significantly improving relations between all countries of the American continent."

Biden responded to his host by saying that "only during the past 15 years have we spent billions of dollars in the Western Hemisphere, tens of billions of dollars," stressing that "the United States provides more foreign aid than all other countries combined."

"Unfortunately, our responsibility does not stop at the borders of the Western Hemisphere," Biden added, as it includes "Central Europe, Asia, Africa, and Southeast Asia."

Biden is in Mexico to attend the "Three Friends" summit, which Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined.

This is Biden's first official visit to Mexico, nearly two years after he took office.

In addition to the thorny immigration file, Biden's visit to Mexico is overshadowed by the tragedy of the industrial drug fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin, and is supervised by Mexican cartels, based on chemical components imported from China, according to the US Drug Enforcement Agency.

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