Laura Esquivel declines her position in culture; "It's a very big administrative burden"

THE CITY OF MEXICO (approx.) .- "At first I had accepted it, but during this transition period, I realized that it was a very heavy administrative burden, and it was This is why I refused the invitation, "said Laura Esquivel when she announced her resignation. to the leadership of the Undersecretariat for Cultural Diversity proposed by the President-elect, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

The author of the novel Like water for chocolate (1989) made this statement at a press conference at the Cultural Center of Mexico in Miami, in preparation for the Miami Book Fair 2018 (the Miami Book Fair, which began this day and its activities until the 18th of this month), where he went to present his books Tita's diary and My black past, both of Editorial Suma de Letras, which complete the trilogy of the history of Like water for chocolate, taken to the national cinema with Arcelia Ramírez as protagonist.

He also stated that the decline did not mean that he was separated from the Andrés Manuel López Obrador project; "I have been involved for many years and I have a lot of confidence in this proposal," he said.

For his part, without mentioning his name, the author evoked Donald Trump's statements concerning migrants, and in particular the Central American caravan, through a metaphor:

"The national security of the family is inversely proportional to the well-being of my neighbor because we are interconnected.

"Whoever considers that one person can have privileges, live better than another and not want to lose those privileges because they belong to him, testifies to great ignorance."

He also tried to dispel the ideas of the president and American businessman:

"People who are run in a neoliberal world understand it only that way… one usually looks for ways to make money grow and develop, but a human being who seeks to move in search of a dignified life is not allowed and even punished.

"These are things we should see from another point of view, we are not separated, we are not fragmenting.The vision of the neoliberal model is that of brutal competition, that of the law of the jungle" , did he declare.