▲Photo Alfredo Dominguez
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, p. 16
While President Andrés Manuel López Obrador offered his last morning at the National Palace, a group of Mexicans from different entities in the country gathered in the Zócalo and surrounding streets to say goodbye to the president with a party in which messages abounded that recognized his work. during the six-year term. The meeting was enlivened with a band, mariachis and chinelos; In addition, posters expressing gratitude and images of all sizes and shapes representing the President saying goodbye were displayed. There was no age limit to say goodbye to the greatest reference of the left in at least the last three decades in Mexico. In front of the National Palace, an elderly woman handed out a sheet with the lyrics of a song she wrote titled Sower of conscienceswhile a young man no older than 30 read aloud a message to one of the most renowned leaders in Latin America: “Dear Andrés Manuel… I will always cry for you in silence because all conservatism would not understand what I feel for you.” In addition, anecdotes were told about AMLO’s political adventures and they remembered that fraud of which he was a victim in 2006 that did not stop him.
