translated from Spanish: Alfonso Romo, Coordinator of the Office of the Presidency: the link with entrepreneurs

city of Mexico-nephew grandson of Francisco I. Madero, billionaire businessman and friend of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Alfonso Romo is part of the closest circle of the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
He is the Coordinator of the Office of the Presidency of the Republic, but it is well known that since the electoral campaign it has been playing as a bridge between the Tabasco politician and big business. Promoter of the candidacy of Vicente Fox in 2000 and opponent of AMLO in 2006, it was not until 2018 when Romo decided to support Lopez Obrador openly.
Blunt supported the Tabasco politician because, in his words, he commissioned a company an “assessment” of AMLO. “We will do a study as if we were to buy a business,” said Romo to explain why he decided to support AMLO. Thus, ‘good management’ of Lopez Obrador as head of Government of the city of Mexico Romo led to become one of the main operators of AMLO together with Tatiana Clouthier campaign, organizing meetings between Lopez Obrador and the major employers of Mexico.
Although in 2006 Romo supported the campaign of propaganda that described Lopez Obrador as a “danger to Mexico”, during the election campaign of 2018 Monterrey businessman was dedicated to convince his peers that AMLO was the best choice for Mexico. Convinced of free market policies, Romo defined himself as a “convert” member of the “mafia of power”.
For political analysts, Romo represents the right wing of the Government of Lopez Obrador. It was Romo who said we had to make Mexico “a paradise for investment”, a statement which not far from the principles of neo-liberalism which, according to AMLO, have plunged Mexico into a serious crisis. Romo is rather a reformist bet.
The problem of Mexico to Monterrey businessman seems not so much background, but in a way. Unlike Lopez Obrador, Romo has not released a single criticism against neoliberalism. On the other hand, repeatedly has defended principles and projects strongly criticized by Party national regeneration movement (Morena) bases.
Romo never ruled in favor of the construction of the new airport of the city of Mexico, cancel even declared himself willing to launch a public tender for the concession to private initiative. He came to say that the energy reform of Enrique Peña Nieto “worked well”, in his opinion, there was no why make changes to the Mexican Constitution to reverse privatization

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