Mexico's president spars with reporters over safety and drug cartels, claims journalist is DEA informant

A reporter told Mexico's president Tuesday that his supporters had harassed her when she was trying to cover an event in June, and complained that his polarization of Mexican society has put journalists at risk.

When she asked him what he would do about it, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reacted with a mix of scorn and disinterest, simply saying "nothing, nothing, nothing."

At his daily press briefing Tuesday, the president also claimed that another reporter he doesn't like is a DEA agent or informant. In a country where drug cartels are dominant, that is a potentially deadly accusation; at least 142 reporters and media workers have been killed in Mexico since 2000.