In his speech, Salinas spoke about the moment when his Government began negotiations with the United States to build the Free Trade Agreement.
”There were voices with valid concern that said: ‘this is linking us too much with what is outside,’ but we came from outside,” Salinas explained in the podcast.
”What we Mexicans have done is to have assimilated this training through generations fed by a number of currents, those originating from our country, those brought by the Spanish, but also the Jewish, Arab, African currents, those who arrived against their will, brought as slaves and we talk very little about them,” he added.
His message about pensions was what made it trendy. Questioned in the morning conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum recommended benefiting from social programs.
”The majority of former presidents live outside Mexico. The only former presidents who live in Mexico are Fox, in Guanajuato, and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in Palenque. The others live in Spain,” the president said.
”Calderón in Spain, Peña Nieto in Spain and Zedillo in the United States. No one has applied for their pension and we would not give it to them. Of course: they can request their Welfare pension, but they would have to return to live in Mexico,” he added.
According to Sheinbaum, the former presidents – before Andrés Manuel López Obrador – received five million pesos a month as a pension, in addition to other support.
