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‘A Polarization Campaign’: Atlas Network Responds to Mexican Government Accusations

Roberto Salinas ante acusaciones del Gobierno de AMLO contra Atlas Network

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Ana Elizabeth García Vilchis, director of media for the Mexican presidential spokesperson, accused the Atlas Network on Wednesday of “financing” an international network of bots and accounts to attack the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).

“We want to say that there is a network against the government of President López Obrador in which national and international actors participate,” García Vilchis said during a press conference while assuring that Julián Macías, a technology expert, carried out the investigation.

Upon hearing the information, several of the accused reacted to the news. Agustín Antonetti explained that several dictatorships had threatened him, but stressed that he had never been pressured by democratic governments.

“This morning, the Mexican government, on national television, accused me of being financed by the US government to ‘destabilize’ them. I will continue to make them uncomfortable,” Antonetti wrote on his Twitter account.

The first reaction from Roberto Salinas, director of the Atlas Network’s Latin America Centre, was sarcastic on social media. “The illustrious Minister of Verisimilitude failed to say that Darth Vader, the Joker, and Lord Voldemort also participate in the conspiracy network,” was his first message after hearing about the press conference.

The Atlas Network team’s response

El American consulted Roberto Salinas, director of the Atlas Network’s Latin America Centre, about his position on the accusation made by AMLO’s government. Salinas explained that these are false accusations on the part of the government.

“This is something grossly false by the one who claims to be the minister of truth. They are naming Agustín Antonetti as the founder of Atlas Network, Agustín is a 21-year-old boy who has become a very important influencer, who we invite as a participant to the forums and he has his own agenda,” Salinas told El American.
He added: “This mediocre minister doesn’t even take the opportunity to say: ‘on the Atlas Network page, these are the values it defends.’ Whether right-wing or left-wing, it doesn’t go beyond labels and polarization. The principles are implicit in the Atlas website: supporting opportunity for all, distribution of opportunities, and wealth creation.”
Salinas detailed that behind this accusation could be the intention to polarize Mexican society. “It is part of the campaign to label others. Independence is approaching, and if Mexico publishes a paper on energy that redounds, I just published something that promotes an alternative to energy nationalism. It’s just criticizing,” he said.
He added: “So it’s a way of diverting attention and feeding the anti-gringo fury. It’s a kind of nationalist ‘Methamphetamine’ pill. And it’s feeding that nationalist addiction.”
Finally, he said, “it would seem that here we have millions in funding. Yes, we have financing, but it is tiny compared to what, for example, the Puebla Group receives, which is also taxpayers’ money. It is not generated money. We do not receive a single cent from the government, and there have been governments that have approached us to try to ingratiate themselves with us.”
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Williams Perdomo

Williams Perdomo es periodista y escritor, especializado en las fuentes Política y Cultura.

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