“Now we know why he did not build the 100 universities”: severe criticism of AMLO for its “problem with the middle class”

After the elections in Mexico, the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) He made several comments about the day in his morning lecture. One of the most controversial has been criticism of the Mexican middle class for having “ambitious” attitudes that seek “to succeed at all costs”.

These comments generated a strong signal on social networks. One of which was Jan-Albert Hootsen, representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), who recalled the president’s remarks to say: “I guess we now know why the AMLO government never built any of the 100 universities it promised to build.”

This after President López Obrador said in his morning lecture that “a member of the middle, middle-middle, middle-upper class, even with a bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate, andIt is very difficult to convince (…) it is an ambitious attitude, it is to succeed at all costs and to want to move forward. Very selfish “.

At these words, Hootsen asked: “SoWhat exactly is the right attitude in life, if having aspirations like going to college is a bad thing, López Obrador?What exactly do you expect from your people, if not “to move forward in life”?

Further, he shared that he himself voted for AMLO in the presidential elections and pointed out that although now he says the middle class is the hardest to convince, “he forgets for convenience that a considerable number of middle class voters voted for him three years ago, with their university degrees, their aspirations and their attempts to advance in life ”.

However, the CJP representative was not the only public figure to attack the president for his comments.. Denise Dresser and Chumel Torres also singled out the president for his attack.

Through Twitter, the Mexican political scientist assured that: “López Obrador qualifies those who aspire to more, want to move forward and think that education is a springboard for social mobility as” selfish “. And he is not trying to make Mexico a country of the middle class, prosperous, and more prosperous for all “

While Chumel Torres assured that the president prefers “ignorant” people when it comes to politics. “I like them like that, ignorant,” he wrote. While in a second post he described the Tabasco politician as a “sewer” for his “morning” remarks.

Héctor Suárez Gomís, a Mexican comedian, mocked the executive’s comments, recalling another of his comments after the elections, according to which organized crime had behaved better than its opponents, to criticize it. Then he wrote on Twitter: “In Mexico organized crime is good … Those who are fucking terrorists and destabilize the country they are the “selfish and ambitious” of the middle class… They don’t let themselves be brainwashed and study to be better! Do me a goddamn favor. “

The journalist Hector de Mauléon also took advantage of the exhibition President of the Republic to endorse his position against his government and to criticize his way of running the country and addressing the middle class. “It’s terrible to see in whose hands the country is. The enemy is the middle class, “selfish”, “aspirant”, “hypocrite”, with bachelors, with masters, with doctorates ”, also underlined the columnist.

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