Mexico’s President Returns After COVID-19 Recovery

Mexico’s President Returns After COVID-19 Recovery
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador gives his daily morning press conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional in Mexico City on Feb. 8, 2021. Marco Ugarte/AP Photo
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MEXICO CITY—Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador returned to his daily morning news conferences on Feb. 8 after a two-week absence prompted by a COVID-19 diagnosis, but vowed not to wear a mask or require Mexicans to use them.

“There is no authoritarianism in Mexico ... everything is voluntary, liberty is the most important thing,” López Obrador said. “It is each person’s own decision.”