Through her book ‘The King of Cash’, journalist Elena Chávez González narrates details about the 18 years she lived near President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to show, says the author, how power has been the great love and obsession of the president, and “how hatred and resentment have been the food that sustains him.”
Elena Chávez was married to César Yáñez, one of lópez Obrador’s closest men since 2000. He was his spokesman when he was head of government of Mexico City and in his campaigns for the Presidency of the Republic.
Both López Obrador and César Yáñez, current Undersecretary of the Interior, are the protagonists of the story.
Months before the start of the six-year term, César Yáñez faced criticism and generated a controversy as a result of his wedding to businesswoman Dulce Silva. The link was made with luxuries and occupied the cover of the magazine ¡Hola!, which was then labeled as contrary to the austerity policy promoted by López Obrador.
In ‘The King of Cash’ Elena Chávez brings to light political betrayals, personal ambitions, infidelities, labor abuses, corruption and authoritarianism in López Obrador’s inner circle.
“I tell here in detail how the president’s operators got for a long time billions of pesos to fulfill their boss, and in passing they also served themselves with the big spoon. I do not seek to defame any of the characters that appear here, but only to break a pact of impunity, “says the author.
In the text that includes the prologue of the journalist Anabel Hernández, 18 years are detailed in which Chávez González lived closely to the now president of the Republic, for being a partner of the then press chief of López Obrador, César Yáñez.
“The King of Cash is a clear and uncompromising chronicle through which the secret political, personal and financial history of AMLO and his closest circle is reconstructed, indispensable to understand the DNA of the president, of the so-called 4T and Morena,” says Anabel Hernández.
The author is a journalist graduated from the Carlos Septién García school. In the media she has worked as a reporter in the newspapers Excélsior (1990-1994), unomasuno (1995) and Ovaciones (1998-2000).
He also worked in social communication in the Senate of the Republic, in 1996, and in the Ministry of the Interior, in 1997, during the six-year term of Ernesto Zedillo.
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