President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed her solidarity with Sabina Berman, Vanessa Romero and Denise Dresser after the misogynist comments of businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego, who responded to the president who uses him as a distractor and questioned his “selective solidarity.”
“All my solidarity to Sabina, Vanessa and even Denise Dresser, to look that we do not match almost anything, but you cannot call a woman in the way this person goes, with a misogyny, a terrible machismo,” Sheinbaum said Wednesday.
The president said that the tone and content of the messages of the founder and president of Grupo Salinas were unacceptable: “There are many things in which we do not agree, but we must condemn when women are particularly addressed. It has to be an issue that is denounced from society, not only from the presidency.”
In addition, Sheinbaum said that Salinas Pliego’s comments are part of a strategy to distract public opinion on the debt of more than 74,000 million pesos in taxes by the businessman’s signatures.
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What did Ricardo Salinas say?
On July 5, lawyer Vanessa Romero Rocha published in the newspaper Reforma an article entitled “The Antihero”, where she portrayed Salinas Pliego as “a millionaire who has always depended on the state support, but now criticizes and refuses to collaborate.”
The next day, the writer Sabina Berman public in El Universal an article entitled “Salinas and the Deep State”, where she points out of evading taxes, not paying social security or vacations to more than 150 thousand employees and carrying out irregular operations through ghost companies.
In response, Ricardo Salinas launched a series of comments with insults, misogyny and disqualifications to the careers of these women. Publications generated strong criticism of their offensive and aggressive tone.
The political scientist Denisse Dresser did not participate directly with an article, but manifested in defense of Romero and Berman through his X account, where he commented:
“My solidarity with @vannessar and @sabinaberman in the face of the violent and misogynist attacks of Ricardo Salinas Pliego. A creature created by the State that now the State itself cannot control. One of the worst examples of the capitalism of Cuates. And a man who goes through Mexico presuming his rot without anyone stopping it.”
After Sheinbaum’s words on Wednesday, Salinas Pliego published a letter that responds “from president to president” that his solidarity is limited to those who are on his side, and that he is used as a recusy to divert political attention.
After referring to Sabina Berman, Vanessa Romero and Denise Dresser as three “writers” (entrecompillar of the entrepreneur) financed by the Sheinbaum government and dedicated to defame it, Salinas Pliego said that he has faced systematic attacks, slander and media judgments orchestrated by the current federal administration.
And he launched a series of questions: why is it called ‘oligarch’, ‘offender’, ‘Evasor’, ‘corrupt’, without evidence, while his government demands evidence for accusations against the State?
He asked Sheinbaum if it is fair that from the Executive he presses the Supreme Court to pursue him politically: “For being a man, should I tolerate public lynchings?”
He criticized government priorities and asked that problems such as insecurity, drug trafficking and femicide be addressed: “Your priorities are wrong. While you defend those who attack me, Mexico faces serious crises.”
“This week, three girls were killed, including a 13 -year -old dismembered. Where is your feminist outrage?”
Finally, Salinas Pliego called Sheinbaum to stop using “the flag of gender violence as an excuse to cover up abuse of power”, and to defend citizens who work, pay taxes and want a country without fear.
“Solidaríce is with the families of the victims and act against violence. It’s not about me. It’s about everyone’s freedoms,” he said.
María Laura Medina, wife of Ricardo Salinas, published a message on the X network to defend the entrepreneur: “Being a woman does not entitle us to attack any man without evidence. Just as there are women who deserve respect, there are also men who deserve it. Gender does not define ethics, or integrity. The acts do.”
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