Who is Tim Golden, the American journalist who linked AMLO to the Sinaloa Cartel?

• Journalist Tim Golden links AMLO to drug traffickers.
• His stunning ProPublica article shocked the country.
• AMLO denies the allegations.

Journalist Tim Golden recently published a bombshell article about Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The ProPublica journalist alleges that AMLO received at least $2 million from the Sinaloa Cartel.

Edgar Valdez Villarreal, better known as La Barbie, is named as one of the drug traffickers involved in helping to fund AMLO’s first campaign. He’s currently in prison.

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According the article this narco money went to AMLO’s first presidential campaign ion 2006.

Journalist Tim Golden describes it all in his recent article «Did Drug Traffickers Channel Millions of Dollars to Mexican President López Obrador’s First Campaign?’

However, Golden does not confirm that Andrés Manuel sanctioned, or was aware of, these alleged donations.

During his la mañanera on Wednesday, January 31, the Mexican president said it was false and slanderous.

Will AMLO take legal action against Tim Golden?

On the other hand, the Mexican president made it clear that he will not take legal action against Tim Golden.

However, AMLO said that the U.S. President Joe Biden, will find out about all this «because they have to inform him.»

«… I don’t denounce journalists, I don’t denounce the media, I denounce the government of the United States for allowing these immoral practices,» he said.

Additionally, the president criticized the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for «meddling» and more.

Who is journalist Tim Golden?

But, who is Tim Golden, the American journalist who wrote about the alleged links between AMLO and the Sinaloa Cartel?

Originally from Los Angeles, California, where he was born in 1961, Tim graduated from Dartmouth College, and was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.

He served as a senior writer at The New York Times, where he spent 20 years as an investigative reporter, foreign correspondent and national correspondent.

He also contributed cover stories to The Marshall Project, a non-profit criminal justice organization.

He has won 2 Pulitzer Prizes

Moreover, journalist Tim Golden has won two Pulitzer Prize.

Few know that he was involved in Alex Gibney’s film Taxi to the Dark Side.

He also obtained confidential files from the army’s investigation into torture and prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

On X (formerly Twitter), where he has just over 2,400 followers, it stands out that he has no visible tweets.

Tim Golden is a reporter and Editor-at-Large at ProPublica

This journalist who has agitated AMLO in an surprising way is a reporter and Editor-at-Large at ProPublica.

Tim Golden focuses on national security, foreign policy and criminal justice issues for the outlet.

He began his journalistic career at United Press International, covering foreign affairs in the Washington office.

He lived in Brazil as a correspondent for the Miami Herald in South America and spent four years in Mexico as the New York Times bureau chief.