Octavio Paz and Carlos Salinas de Gortari
An emblem of the PRI is Carlos Salinas de Gortari, former president of Mexico, who governed from 1988 to 1994, and who was photographed next to the award-winning writer.
Octavio Paz publicly praised the privatization reforms of the government of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who even offered him a position as Minister of Culture.
Cultural assistance was put together in the dark by an impoverished Octavio Paz and Carlos Salinas de Gortari in search of legitimacy. Let’s not manicure history. This is so that artists and writers will stop getting involved in leftist movements like the guerrilla… pic.twitter.com/9JjiyGdJ7w
– Ivan Cruz Osorio (@IvanCruzOsorio)
February 25, 2019
He threatens to resign his post as ambassador
In early October 1968, Paz resigned his post as ambassador to India in protest at the massacre perpetrated by the Mexican government in Tlatelolco. When former President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz was questioned, he replied: What do you think you are going to resign? The writer never quit.
Twenty years later, in July 1988, in two articles published in La Jornada, he defended tooth and nail, not the victory of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, but the fraud that the PRI machinery had carried out, and told Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and Manuel Clouthier to stop behaving like tantrum children, to accept the imposition of Salinas, who was the least of all evils.
Although other reports indicate that he recognized Manuel Clouthier as leader of the opposition to the PRI, the hegemonic party in the country.
