Mexico City.- José Ramón López Beltrán, son of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, responded to the questions about images where he is allegedly vacationing in an exclusive resort that is not an official or manages public resources.
“I am not a public official. I have no charge or handling government resources. Labor, like many other people, and when you can, I also seek to share time with my family,” he said in a message on the social network X.
This Thursday, the journalist Enrique Hernández Alcazar reported that López Beltrán has been staying for two weeks in the complex life Riviera Maya, Cancun, a luxury resort owned by Daniel Chávez, Compadre de AMLO and businessman benefited during the last sexennium.
The journalist recalled that it is not the first time that López Beltrán is under controversy for his luxuries and pointed out the case of the “gray house” in Houston, “symbol of the incongruity between the discourse of austerity and the life of privileges.”
He added that between 2019 and 2020, Grupo Vidanta obtained from the Government of AMLO the extension for up to 15 years of at least three federal concessions to operate beaches in Nayarit, Jalisco and Guerrero, and also received two new additional permits for beaches in Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta, allowing it to exploit and usufruct extensive federal areas.
Given the criticisms arising from the images that show him enjoying the resort with his family, López Beltrán published the message:
“Having personal or family moments is not a luxury, it is a right. Who works and lives with honesty also deserves rest, privacy and joy without being judged.”
He added that he works on projects that do not seek reflectors and “that I do not walk it, does not give anyone right to invent from ignorance or bad intention.”
“If one day I get to participate in public life (which now is not the case), I will do it with responsibility, honesty, transparency, respect and love of the people,” he said.
José Ramón’s stay revives criticism for the contrast between the private life of the former president’s family and the austerity discourse and promoted during the Tabasco government.
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