President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called as “an excess” the comment of the writer Francisco Martín Moreno on burning morenistas in the Zocalo if lived in the time of the Inquisition.
“I am over-made of that statement; sowing hatred,” the representative said in a video recorded during his tour of Sonora.
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López Obrador noted that in 2017 he had expressed his displeasure with the writer, “but now he’s gone too far.”
The president criticized in the video “the conservatives” and “others who have been silent about such statements are supposedly anti-progressive.”
Martin Moreno said Thursday in a link during Pedro Ferriz de Con’s program that “if one could return to the time of the inquisition, I hung each one, did not hang, burned alive each of the morenists in the Capital Zocalo”.
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A day after his statement, the writer apologized for “the unbecoming literary metaphor of networks” and stated that in his work he has “opposed violence and defended human rights.”
Yesterday, on the radio, I argued that “if we lived in the Inquisition, I would burn the morenists alive in the capital plinth.” In my work I have opposed violence and defended human rights. I offer a sincere apology for the improper literary metaphor of the networks.
— Francisco Martin Moreno (@fmartinmoreno) October 2, 2020
Along with his Commentary on Saturday, López Obrador added the fragment of a poem attributed to Martin Niemsller:
“When the Nazis searched for the communists / I shut up / because I wasn’t a communist. //
When the Social Democrats were imprisoned / I shut up / because I was not a social democrat. 3/4
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) October 4, 2020
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