President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) refused to condemn the aggression experienced during the October 2 march by the writer Denise Dresser.
During the morning press conference, the president said that his government “is a process of transformation and that we have to seek to give itself in complete freedom, without confrontation, in a peaceful way. Put hypocrisy aside, speak the truth.”
The president’s statement came after he was asked for his opinion on the aggression against the writer since a video circulates on social networks where Dresser is seen in the Zócalo of Mexico City, while they shout: out, out!
From the National Palace, López Obrador said that “there has to continue to be debate that there was not before, nothing else was the overwhelming opinion of the regime and its supporters but now it is different, there are already changes.”
“When we talked about transformation it was thought that it was a campaign slogan but I said it will be a transformation just like Independence, Reform and Revolution but in a peaceful way,” he said.
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“They thought it was going to be the same”: AMLO
During his participation, López Obrador said that his government is dedicated to uprooting the regime of corruption and privileges.
“They thought it was going to be more of the same, they had already deceived in 2000 talking about change and it was more of the same, some say that it is known as gatopardism that in which things in appearance change to remain the same and now not but that is difficult for them to accept,” he said.
In addition, the president commented that a text by journalist Sabina Berman, “summarizes well what is happening.”
“The naivety of the Right. Tweeter and commercial media analysis tables dominate. They shout at you when you think outside the neoliberal dogmas. And…. oh surprise… on the street it’s the other way around. I insist: stop discursive simplification and insult,” the journalist shared on social networks.
The president stressed that “we must continue the debate, ensure that it makes respect and also not Manichaeism or hypocrisy, nor things in black or white, not only complain when it suits us.”
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Denise Dresser’s pose
For her part, Denise Dresser wrote in her column in the newspaper Reforma, that “I never thought of living in a country where a group of young people would insult me for demonstrating against militarization, and against impunity, as I have done for decades, government after government.”
In her text, the writer and political scientist points out that “to those who boast of shouting ‘Dresser out’ in the march of October 2, I remind you that they endanger the pluralism that every democracy must support, and violate the spirit that animated the student movement of 1968, which sought precisely more democracy, not less. By intimidating me, they put my freedoms and those of others in check.”
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