2024-04-05 17:58:26
“He electoral Tribunal did not prohibit the last book of my political work entitled ‘¡Gracias!’. He lost the censorship; “freedom won.”
With these words, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) thanked the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial Branch of the Federation (TEPJF) for not banning his book “Thank you!” and although he dedicates a quote to them, he exhibited 2 typos in the text.
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The above was done through his .
The appeal filed by the Opposition candidate was for allegedly engaging in early campaign acts, improper use of public resources and violation of the principle of equity in the contest with the promotion of her book in the morning conferences.
If the project had advanced in the body – which the head of the Executive on two occasions equated to the Court of the Holy Inquisition – the material and its dissemination by any means would have been stopped.
At the end of the quote – from the fourth chapter of the text – López Obrador says that “the prophecy was fulfilled temporarily, that is no longer the case”, alluding to the fact that during the neoliberal governments the US would have controlled Mexico through presidents educated in its universities.
And as proof of this, he quotes -according to him-:
“A recommendation that Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, made to the President of the United States in 1924, Wilson, 1924. Look at what his Secretary of State recommended to the President of the United States. “Mexico is an extraordinarily easy country to dominate, because it is enough to control one man, the President.”
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By reading the fragment, the Mexican president revealed 2 errors in his text:
-Woodrow Wilson was President of the United States between 1913 and 1921, and died on February 3, 1924; He no longer held the position at the time that López Obrador attributes to him.
-Lansing was Wilson’s Secretary of State, but the letter cited by the Mexican Executive was not addressed to him, but to businessman William Randolph Hearst.
Hearst maintained a campaign through his newspaper chain with the intention of influencing the political mood and urging to put an American in the presidency of Mexico and end the Mexican Revolution that threatened the interests of large North American corporations, in particular the oil companies, of which Lansing was part, in the Mexican Petroleum Company of magnate Edward Doheny.
The Electoral Court did not ban the last book of my political work entitled ‘Thank you!’. He lost the censorship; freedom won. pic.twitter.com/OskU87VB9E
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) April 4, 2024
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