Former President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador He reappeared in public with a video released last weekend, in which he introduced his new book greatness.
From his farm in La Chengada, Palenque, Chiapas, the former president appeared with a good face and confirmed that he was in good health.
He noted that he presented the presidential scarf to him Claudia Sheinbaum Who he described as a “friend” and “exceptional president.”
While in his country
he moral leader morena, He said that since he last handed over the presidential team October 1, 2024He went to Quinta La Chengada, in Palenque, ChiapasA property of 13,000 square meters inherited by his parents, so he could retire from active politics, and political practice “is not a simulation.”
“I am retired. Imagine, after 50 years of continuous struggle, how difficult it would be to say: It is over, to cut off all my public and political activity.”
He noted that he began his political work in 1976, when he supported the indigenous Chontal people of Kajuka. In 1977, he was director of the National Indigenous Institute in Tabasco. There she learned to work for humble and poor people.
“In my file at the Interior Ministry in 1979, there was even a report from the feared police officer Nizar Haro accusing me of being a communist because I was defending, supporting and working for the poor. This is how I started and this is how I ended, because I finished my term as president.”
In the same way, he acknowledged the work of many people in his 4T movement, where the priority was “the poor first”.
“You, along with millions of Mexicans, you and many of you, have already managed to get ahead of us, however We have achieved the beginning of transformation. We have put into practice the ideal of the good of all, the poor first.
He also indicated that he is happy with what his government has accomplished, given the various results it has achieved.
“How can I not be happy? How can I not be happy? I have always insisted that happiness is obtained when one works, struggles, and seeks the happiness of others.”
López Obrador stressed that during his government and despite the Covid pandemic, “Two very difficult years because of the pain and also because of the collapse of the economy“.
“Well, though, during the time I was in office, Thirteen million four hundred thousand Mexicans left poverty. I’ll repeat it: thirteen million four hundred thousand Mexicans. That never happened, not during a six-year term. “It is a great pride,” he stressed.
The former president said that when he became president, 42% of Mexicans were in poverty When he left office, The poverty rate was reduced to 29 percent.