Normally a foreign leader complaining about negative American media press coverage isn’t worth noting. But when that leader’s country is the top exporter of a product that has become a leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 49, and when the press coverage accuses that leader of taking drug cartel money, Americans should pay attention.

“I don’t accept this. What I want is for the U.S. government to take a stand,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at a press conference this month. “President Biden has to find out about this. How are we going to sit down at a table and talk about fighting drugs if one of their agencies is leaking information and damaging me?”