President Andrés Manuel López Obrador again minimized the alleged plagiarism of Minister Yasmín Esquivel’s undergraduate thesis, and this time assured that those who accuse plagiarism have no moral authority and are involved in corruption, endorsed it or live from it.
“Usually those who accuse do not have moral authority, they say plagiarism, I wish the problems in Mexico were for plagiarism, the problems of Mexico are for theft,” he said this morning.
“If it is a question of harming us, they immediately head in”: on the accusations of plagiarism against Minister @YasminEsquivel_, the president points out that it is “politicking” and that those who accuse “have no moral authority”. pic.twitter.com/xafGkzDRI9
— Political Animal (@Pajaropolitico) January 3, 2023
And he continued: “All those who shout plagiarism have remained silent in the face of robberies, in the face of corruption, only if it does not seem like something and more if it is about harming us, they immediately head out, they have no moral scruples of any kind, conservatives are very corrupt and very hypocritical.”
He reiterated that the case may be “politicking.”
During his morning conference, the president indicated that UNAM will be the corresponding instance to determine the existence or not of plagiarism.
Read: Plagiarism of thesis: Yasmín Esquivel’s advisor titled 8 other students with almost identical works between 1986 and 2008
A few days ago the UNAM reported that it found a “high level of coincidence” between the thesis of Minister Yasmín Esquivel, accused of plagiarism, and that of another student, however it maintained that it will analyze the case, because it considered that some evidence presented is contradictory.
This, a few hours after Supreme Court Justice Yasmín Esquivel published a document where she maintains, without evidence, that the other student involved in the case acknowledged having taken references and text from his thesis, which he insists began working in 1985.
However, UNAM warned that this notarized testimony allegedly given by the other student involved, Edgar Ulises Báez Gutiérrez, was received a few hours after the university committee met to analyze the case.
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