Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visited the birthplace of the country’s most infamous drug trafficker, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, on Friday, calling for peace and reconciliation days after a U.S. jury convicted the kingpin.
Speaking to a crowd in Badiraguato, a mountainous municipality in the northwestern state of Sinaloa long associated with cartels, Lopez Obrador said people must not be “stigmatized.”
“(The people of) Badiraguato are good people, they are hardworking people,” he told a cheering crowd in a public square. “We must seek reconciliation, we must find peace.”