They remembered when Francisco Martín Moreno said that “he burned each of the Morenoists alive in the Zocalo”

The controversial writer Francisco Martín Moreno has been involved in a duel of statements with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), whom he has rivaled since 2017, when he published a text to ensure that he would not vote for the Tabasqueño in the 2018 elections, in which he won.

Within this column published in the newspaper El Universal, he pointed out that AMLO “would try to govern with recipes extracted from the trash can of the history of economic doctrines that have amply demonstrated their expiration and inefficiency.”

Faced with these statements, the then candidate for the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) responded and stated that “He is a bad writer dedicated to exploiting ignorance and conservatism in society. Thank you.”

The attacks against López Obrador continued, but one of the highest points came in 2020, within the framework of one of the most important commemorations for the country, on October 2, the date that recalls the massacre of students in Tlatelolco square in 1968.

In an interview with the communicator Pedro Ferriz de Con, Moreno Biehl stated that, “if you could go back to the time of the Inquisition, I would hang up, no, I would burn I live every one of the Morenistas in the capital's Zócalo, I swear to you.”

He also added that citizens who vote for Morena in the 2021 midterm elections will be a traitor to the homeland, a term that the Fourth Transformation (Q4) has popularized in recent weeks due to the discussion and voting of the Electricity Reform.

These controversial statements were recalled by Jenaro Villamil, president of the Mexican State Public Broadcasting System (SPR), who shared the video of the interview on social networks and noted that it was a comment of “hatred” and “violence” against the Morenoists.

“'I burned each of the Morenistas alive in the Zocalo', says Francisco Martin Moreno's ineffable. Ah, but this is not hatred, nor an apology for violence, nor intolerance. The media right loves these expressions of mental encomenderos,” wrote the official and also a writer.

Journalist Jairo Calixto joined these tweets and provided an acid comment in which he criticized the quality of his books, saying that he “prefers to burn the Morenoists alive” rather than torture them with texts he authored.

“Francisco Martín Moreno is a humanist, since he prefers to burn the Morenoists alive rather than exterminate them by forcing them to read his books. That would be against humanity!” , said the columnist.

Francisco Martín Moreno published on April 21 an image calling for an end to the campaign of hatred against the opposition legislators who voted against the federal president's electricity reform initiative.

Mario Delgado and Citlalli Hernández, Morena's national leader and general secretary, asked to “bulletin” these officials, whom they have identified as “traitors to the homeland”, to harm them, and their political parties, in the next elections that will take place next June.

His stance against the head of the federal executive did not remain in tweets and journalistic publications, since in May 2019 he published a book called The Thief of Hopes, which tells the story of “Antonio M. Lugo Olea, AMLO”, a politician barely disguised as fiction who had managed to reach the presidency of Mexico through “words mystics” and, anticlimactically, had “robbed the hope” of the Mexicans who voted for him.

Noting the success of his work, he capitalized on it and published a short sequel, entitled When Mexico Lost Hope.

KEEP READING: