Mexico lashes out at EU lawmakers for criticizing president's media antagonism

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks to members of the media, about the country not sending arms to Ukraine after Ukrainian representatives had asked the country's Senate for arms and military assistance a day earlier at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico March 4, 2022. Mexico Presidency/Handout via REUTERS

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico pilloried EU lawmakers on Thursday after the European Parliament passed a resolution urging President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to tone down his broadsides against the media in a country that has seen a slew of killings of journalists.

The parliament's resolution "notes with concern the systematic and tough critiques used by the highest authorities of the Mexican Government against journalists."