Mier assured that, just as at the time of the Spanish conquest the encomiendas consisted of taking gold and silver from Mexico, now we must “end the encomiendas that cause damage to the country.”
“In electrical matters, Spanish companies were favored and that slavery must be removed,” said the deputy.
In contrast, Senator Germán Martínez considered the president’s call “ridiculous and unreasonable”, since the firms building a section of the Mayan Train are Spanish.
In addition, he pointed out that the same day “that he angered the government of Spain, that same day, he took a dictation from the government of the United States, the same day that he called to ‘take gachupines’, that same day he received with honors John Kerry.”
PAN senator Damián Zepeda estimated that the matter seeks to remove the focus of attention from the eldest son of the federal president, José Ramón López Beltrán, due to a possible conflict of interest due to the fact that he and his wife, Carolyn Adams, lived in a house of a director of a contracting company of Petróleos Mexicanos.
