The writer Jorge F. Hernández released on Tuesday a document in which it is stated that he was “discharged” from the service in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) for “term of commission,” and not for having behaviors “unworthy” or “misogynistic,” as previously indicated by the agency.
Through social networks, the former minister showed the document DSE-DG-03129/u/s, dated August 9, in which the SRE indicates that its commission would conclude on October 1, 2021, and that previously it must enjoy 49 calendar days of vacation.
“It is on record that I was not dismissed for ‘misogynist’ or ‘unworthy behaviour’. #Yomelibro,” the former minister wrote on his Twitter account.
On Tuesday, Hernández said that Ambassador Carmen Oñate Muñoz was used to justify his dismissal, since he was with the official when the executive director of Cultural Diplomacy at SRE published in networks that the dismissal had been for “an ethical matter and institutional conduct.”
He pointed out that the ambassador had not been consulted or warned that she was going to be used “as a pretext” for her dismissal, which she considered an “injustice to her who is an unimpeachable lady who has handled the situation of relations between Mexico and Spain wonderfully.”
According to the writer, the SRE had to justify his dismissal by arguing misogyny because the issue was decontextualized, after he opposed the ideologized statements of an official.
On August 7, the writer Jorge F. Hernández was dismissed as Minister for Cultural Affairs of the Embassy of Mexico in Spain, after contradicting the current director of Educational Materials of the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP), Marx Arriaga, who said that ‘reading for pleasure is an act of capitalist consumerism’.
“(…) To make it clear forever that in the background you read for pleasure and various pleasures remain in pure reading so they continue to drool the incredible memories of absolutely illegible upstarts,” Hernández wrote in his column Agua de Azar, published in the newspaper Millennium.
“I set up here a spear in favor of those of us who read for insomnia, to travel without suitcases to any landscape and without a clock at any time and time; I speak of those who read aloud to share a plot and those who read in silence to talk to gods, bond with a muse or kill a tyrant…”
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