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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 329 

Condemning Mexican President Andre ́s Manuel Lo ́pez Obrador’s statements 

of political interference in United States elections. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

APRIL 26, 2023 

Mr. CRENSHAW submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning Mexican President Andre ́s Manuel Lo ́pez 

Obrador’s statements of political interference in United 

States elections. 

Whereas foreign interference in another nation’s elections is 

a violation of law and longstanding international customs, 

including the United Nation’s Declaration on Principles 

of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and 

Cooperation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (1970); 

Whereas, according to article 3, chapter II of the Charter of 

the Organization of American States, in which both the 

United States and the Government of Mexico are members, ‘‘Every State has the right to choose, without external interference, its political, economic, and social system 

and to organize itself in the way best suited to it, and 


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has the duty to abstain from intervening in the affairs of 

another State. Subject to the foregoing, the American 

States shall cooperate fully among themselves, independently of the nature of their political, economic, and social 

systems’’; 

Whereas, on March 9, 2023, President Lo ́pez Obrador stated 

that his government would ‘‘start an information campaign for Mexicans who live and work in the United 

States . . . and if they do not change their attitude and 

think that they are going to use Mexico for their propaganda, electoral, and political purposes, we are going to 

call for them not to vote for that party, because it is 

interventionist, inhumane, hypocritical, and corrupt’’; 

Whereas, on March 9, 2023, the Associated Press reported 

that President Lo ́pez Obrador ‘‘threatened to start a 

campaign in the United States asking Mexicans and Hispanics who live there not to vote for Republicans’’; 

Whereas, on March 9, 2023, the Los Angeles Times reported 

that President Lo ́pez Obrador ‘‘threatened to encourage 

U.S. Latino voters to oppose the GOP’’; 

Whereas, on March 10, 2023, the Washington Post reported 

that President Lo ́pez Obrador said that ‘‘he would ask 

Americans of Mexican and Hispanic origin not to vote for 

Republicans’’; 

Whereas, on March 10, 2023, Fox News reported that President Lo ́pez Obrador ‘‘threatened to launch an ‘information campaign’ in the U.S. against Republicans, telling 

Mexicans and Hispanics not to vote for them unless U.S. 

lawmakers change their treatment of Mexico—an apparent threat of election interference by the head of state in 


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response to U.S. calls for action against cartels smuggling fentanyl across the border’’; and 

Whereas, in July 2022, President Lo ́pez Obrador attacked 

the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, and expressed the 

intent to interfere in United States elections, stating, 

‘‘[W]e’re going to ask our countrymen there that they 

don’t vote for that candidate or party’’: Now, therefore, 

be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) calls on Mexican President Andre ́s Manuel 

3 Lo ́pez Obrador to fully and unequivocally retract his 

4 statement made on March 9, 2023; 

5 (2) calls on Mexican President Lo ́pez Obrador 

6 to commit to noninterference in any election in the 

7 United States; 

8 (3) calls on Mexican President Lo ́pez Obrador 

9 to take action to ensure that no ministry or instru10 mentality acting on behalf of the Mexican Govern11 ment takes any action to interfere with any election 

12 within the United States; 

13 (4) calls on the Department of State to monitor 

14 the Mexican Government’s activities that may inter15 fere in Federal, State, or local elections in the 

16 United States; and 

17 (5) calls on President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., to 

18 strongly denounce, condemn, and use the tools of 


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1 government to protect against all foreign inter2 ference. 

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