Vicente Fox asked AMLO to leave the National Palace and move to the Templo Mayor

“Motion supported!“Are the two words with which former president Vicente Fox joined the petition on Thursday, August 12, so that the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador leaves the National Palace to the ruins of Great temple.

The controversy arose from a tweet from journalist Pascal Beltrán del Río, who questioned the reason for López Obrador’s decision to live in the former viceroys’ palace and not in the ruins of the Huey Tocalli, one of the most important religious centers of the Aztec Empire.

“For consistency, Shouldn’t he leave the Viceroys Palace to live in the ruins of the Templo Mayor?», Wrote the communicator in his account.

Fox Quesada was not the only one who joined and echoed Beltrán del Río’s comments, as many users have expressed their opinion on it as well.

“Even better, that he moves to the pyramid he has just built in the Zócalo and let him make his mornings from above. So the circus will be sold out, that’s what he and his hosts love, “one Twitter user wrote.

“Completely agree, If you feel so Aztec, what do you do living in a palace of the viceroyalty? What he is is a rascal, a playboy and a manipulator, ”said another netizen.

And is the question of the Templo Mayor has not ceased to be at the heart of public opinion, especially in Mexico City, after the government of the capital announced the construction of a model of the Templo Mayor for commemorate 500 years since the fall of Mexico Tenochtitlan, on August 13th.

In addition to the above, controversy has increased due to the decision to change the name of the Sad night tree, will now be called Victorious Night Tree. The name change was approved by the Head of Government, Claudia Sheinbaum, and the Honorary President of the Historical Memory Council, Beatriz Gutiérrez.

According to Gutiérrez Müller, The sad night This is the name that the conqueror Hernán Cortés gave, “Who was it really a victory day for? for the old Mexicans ”. He added that “there is no one like the ancient settlers and their descendants to tell what really happened.”

Faced with such acts, many questioned the decisions of the various governments of the Fourth Transformation because certain sectors of the population do not plan to continue to “deny the Spanish heritage”. It is even remembered when AMLO asked the King of Spain, Felipe VI, to apologize to Mexico for what happened during the conquest and the colony.

Faced with these discourses and positions, the historian Enrique Ortiz, better known in the Internet world under the name of Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc, asked if so much weight was given to the memory of the Templo Mayor when it was left unoccupied long before the Spanish victory.

“It is curious that more media attention is given to the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan during this commemoration. In reality, In July 1521, Tenochtitlan and its ceremonial enclosure had already been abandoned by the Mexicans, who took refuge in Tlatelolco, its market, its ceremonial enclosure, ”he said via his Twitter account.

He pointed out that during the last 43 days of the defense of the Mexican capital, the fighting took place far from the center of the city.

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