The sociologist and writer Maria Amparo Casar It is again a topic of conversation in the morning conference of the president Andrés Manuel López Obradorsince towards the end of last week there was talk of an alleged corruption case dating back to 2004, when officials from Pemex They ‘expedited’ the payment of the pension and the life insurance of the husband of the president of Mexicans against Corruption and Impunity, Carlos Fernando Marquez Padilla, who committed suicide on October 7 of that year. Then, on the afternoon of Friday, May 3, the parastatal he uploaded the file to his networks of the case, which included sensitive and private information both the deceased and the activist.
Octavio Romero Oropezadirector of Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), said in La Mañanera on May 6 that there is already a complaint because a pension and life insurance were paid that should not have been applied since it was a suicide. With this, one seeks a damage repair since between 2004 and February 2024 monthly payments of 25 thousand pesos have been made (31 million pesos in total), in addition to the insurance being 17 million 600 thousand pesos.
The alleged case of corruption accused by the AMLO government coincides with the launch of the most recent book of the president of Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI), an organization that has been criticism of his administration and that has uncovered alleged irregularities in the emblem projects of the president (as the Mayan Train) in which even their older children would be involved.
The post is called ‘The dots on the i’s. The legacy of a government that lied, stole and betrayed‘ (Debate, 2024) and makes a critical count for the episodes of the current administration in which they precisely did not respect those principles (not lying, not stealing and not betraying) that López Obrador and the members of his party, the National Regeneration Movement, boast so much about (Brunette).
There are plenty of examples, according to Casar: ‘The culiacanazo‘ (the release of Ovidio Guzmán, son of Joaquín ‘Chapo’ Guzmán), the mismanagement during the Covid-19 pandemicthe delayed response after the impact of the Hurricane Otisthe disappearance of autonomous organs, the extinction of the Popular insurance and the failure of the Health Institute for Wellbeing (Insabi) or the millionaire embezzlement of Segalmex, are some of them. However, generally speaking, “I I have no difference with López Obrador“, the author told Infobae Mexico within the framework of the book presentation.
According to journalist Héctor de Mauleón, María Amparo Casar’s book provoked AMLO’s angerso he deployed what he calls “a petty and brutal campaign of harassment and defamation” against the sociologist. “The government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador has six characteristics that define it: incompetence, impunity, inconsistency, illegality, deinstitutionalization and misinformation. They are not just defects in the system, they are the axes on which the self-call stands Fourth Transformation“, it reads.
The publication is edited by Debate and distributed by the publisher Penguin Random House; It has been on sale since the beginning of April and can be purchased in physical format at main bookstores of the country as well as in online stores by 269 pesos approximately; is also available in Digital version for Kindlein 236.75 pesos (price on Amazon Mexico), although on the publisher’s page, the eBook costs 189 pesos.
After the dissemination of the personal data of Casar and his family, various civil society organizations, intellectuals, politicians, researchers, journalists, activists and citizens have come forward. sympathized with her. “In his eagerness to take personal revenge against a citizen who has seriously and critically analyzed numerous abuses of the current government“The president breaks several laws, further strains the public debate less than a month before the elections and hurts a family,” condemned Mexicans against Corruption and Impunity.
For its part, the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data (Inai) announced that it opened a ex officio investigation for the disclosure of personal data that the Presidency made regarding the so-called ‘Márquez Padilla case‘. “At the same time, the Institute remains attentive to complaints that may be filed by people affected by the dissemination of their personal data, in order to initiate the corresponding procedures,” he said in a statement on May 4.
