Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed that former President AMLO is about to launch his new book, although she did not confirm that he will tour the country to promote it.
Mexico City, November 18 (However).- The new book written by the former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador is close to being published, said the President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardowho did not confirm that the former president is going to tour the country due to said event.
“His book is going to come out soon. They did tell us about that,” commented the federal president during her morning conference today, after being questioned on the subject.
Sheinbaum pointed out that the information was released by Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, AMLO’s wife. “President López Obrador’s wife, Beatriz, spoke to a friend and a friend spoke to me,” said the head of the Executive from the National Palace.
“I can share that everything seems to indicate that his book will be released this year. I don’t know the day, I don’t know the content,” he added, although he noted that the literary material “has to do with Mexican humanism and the cultural greatness of Mexico.”
Likewise, Sheinbaum Pardo said that it is not known whether the former president will carry out a national tour to promote his book. This, following rumors that exist about this possibility.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s most recent book was ¡Gracias!edited by Planeta, in which he reviews his public life and a last look at his career prior to his retirement in October 2024, when he left the Presidency of Mexico.
“With this text aimed at young people, I am retiring early; at the end of my mandate I will leave political activity with the satisfaction of having fulfilled my promise and with the criterion that we should not be too attached to money or power,” reads this extensive text that starts from his childhood in Tepetitán until his last year in the Presidency.
In this first part, in addition to remembering the people and teachers who marked his beginnings, he explains what it means for him to have been born in Tabasco, a state that in words he quotes from Carlos Pellicer, one of his mentors, “is more water than land.” In that sense, AMLO points out that “I could even say that Tabasco residents are liberal by nature,” a situation for which, he believes, the National Action Party (PAN) has never had significance.
López Obrador remembers his steps in the 1970s through the National Indigenous Institute (INI) when he began to be followed by the regime’s political police, the Federal Security Directorate, as stated in a report dated 1979. “From that time are the reports of the terrible director of the Federal Security Police, Miguel Nazar Haro, who described me as a communist.”
AMLO also revealed in his book that a few months before the 2018 elections, the power elites in Mexico were so desperate for their growth in the polls that they visited Enrique Peña Nieto to propose, first, that the comedian Eugenio Derbez be the common presidential candidate of the National Action Party (PAN) and the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which meant removing Ricardo Anaya Cortés and José Antonio Meade Curibreña from the process.