The corrupt is you

The president has been obsessed for several weeks with how much I earn and what I have. He does it because he can’t explain how his son became a millionaire overnight without working. But along the way, he slanders me, because he says that what I have is the result of corruption. Look, President, I know you don’t understand this very well, but it’s called work. For more than 20 years I have had formal jobs, in full view of all, journalistic spaces that fortunately have had the preference of many people. The media for which I have worked are accredited, they are well known, they have deposited my fees in bank transfers, I have paid my taxes and with what I have saved, I have improved my way of life. I am not the one who cannot explain what you have lived on, that is you. I am not the one who spent 13 years – between head of government and president – without working, reporting that he had no income. That’s you. I am not the one who has lived by receiving yellow envelopes with cash. I am not the one who maintains himself with “contributions” that we all know what they are: corruption. I am not the one who has not paid taxes. I’m not the one who says you don’t use credit cards or have credits. I am not the one who tries to deceive with the story that he has 200 pesos in his wallet. I’m not the one with children who have never worked and suddenly became millionaires. I’m not the one with kids who became coyotes in Dad’s government. I’m not that. That’s you. I can understand that you do not like my journalistic work, you are in all your right, but an ill-gotten money – a chayote, as they say – you will not find it for me. In fact he didn’t find it anymore and they already told him that I’m not like that. I am not corrupt. On that foot I don’t limp. You already know that because you have sent me to investigate even under the stones, and what you have come across: that my income (which bothers you so much) comes from the media for which I have worked in my life. That, that’s what you say yourself. There are no videos of me receiving cash clandestinely. There are two brothers of his, and his private secretary of now, and his private secretary of before, and of which he was his secretary of Finance. I don’t have to ask an entrepreneur friend to pretend a job to justify a life of luxury abroad. Those are you and your child. And I’m not going to stop to answer him again that if he inflated the amounts, that if he exaggerated the properties, if he attributes to me apartments that are not mine, if one day he says that it is a large land, and the next day he says not so much. That’s the least of it, Mexicans are already used to their false data. You have decided to use all your power to slander me for revenge. And with his lies, he has put my family’s safety at risk. You have used all the power of the state to wage persecution against a journalist, violate his private life, display addresses, and put me and my family at the mercy of the criminals you treat so fondly. Because he has not been able to deny a line of the investigations. Or didn’t his son Jose Ramon live in the gray house in Houston? Didn’t it have a 23 meter pool? Wasn’t the house of a senior executive of an oil company that has tripled payments in his six-year term? Wasn’t Pio, his brother, the one in the video receiving money in envelopes? Wasn’t Martin, his other brother, the one in the other video, doing the same thing? Wasn’t his secretary Esquer the one with the cash carousel? Wasn’t your cousin Felipa the one for the contracts at Pemex? He has not been able to deny us and that has him furious, out of himself, with an appetite for revenge that seems to have no limits. In the country there is a record level of insecurity, the shortage unleashed, 20 years ago there was not so much inflation, the health system is collapsed and corruption is already splashing on you and your family. And instead of governing, you escalate daily attacks on a journalist who is telling you the truth. You have admitted it publicly: you would not be attacking me if we had not published the reports. That is the message of a tyrant. The one under suspicion is you. The one who has to explain how much your children have and how they got it is you. The one who has to explain how they went from middle class to millionaires in a couple of years, is you. You are the one who has to explain what business they are doing, how many friends they put into government positions and what benefits they are receiving from this. I’ve been doing my job, the job of any journalist: reviewing power. And you’ve been trying to attack me so that I bend and shut up. Well, I’m not going to bend and I’m not going to shut up. You behave like an autocrat trying to silence the press. Know that I will continue doing journalism and I’m going to continue to exercise freedom of expression at any cost.



Original source in Spanish

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