AMLO returns to public eye to promote his new book ‘Grandeza’

In his archetypal nationalist quality since leaving bureau successful October 2024, erstwhile President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented his latest book, “Grandeza” (“Greatness”), successful which helium proposes a reinterpretation of Mexico’s taste history.

In a video posted connected his societal media accounts, López Obrador explained that the publication constitutes the archetypal portion of a larger publishing project, based connected what helium calls “the duplicate pillars of Mexican humanism.”

“Grandeza” (“Greatness”) is the archetypal portion of a larger publishing project, based connected what its writer calls “the duplicate pillars of Mexican humanism.” The adjacent portion (“Gloria”) explores Mexico’s governmental history. (YouTube)

“Grandeza” — which volition beryllium published by Planeta publishing location — focuses connected the archetypal pillar: Mexico’s affluent taste legacy. 

López Obrador (AMLO) described his caller publication arsenic a vindication of Mexico’s taste richness from an Indigenous perspective.

“Thanks to the bequest of knowledge, values, customs, traditions and creation [the Indigenous] near behind, Mexico, contempt everything, continues to beryllium a taste powerfulness successful the world,” helium said.

López Obrador makes the statement that what we’ve been told astir these civilizations is simply a “false, simulated history,” constructed from the imaginativeness of the conquerors and perpetuated by the oligarchies.

In “Grandeza,” the erstwhile president seeks to regenerate that accepted speechmaking with a communicative that recognizes the greatness of Indigenous cultures, their relevance and their interaction connected nationalist life.

“This publication is the communicative of our cultures, of our civilizations,” helium said. “The extremity is to dismantle, to teardrop down the past created by the invaders and maintained during centuries of elite domination.”

AMLO’s announcement included a acquainted critique of the Spanish conquistadores, and of Spain itself. “Greed and corruption,” helium said, “were brought present by the Spanish.” 

To exemplify the charge, helium invoked a humanities transition astir Hernán Cortés to exemplify the quality betwixt the Indigenous worldview and the mentality of the invaders who “simply came to plunder.” When Moctezuma gave golden to the conquistadors, they reacted “like monkeys,” López Obrador said. When asked wherefore it mattered truthful much, Cortés is said to person responded: “We person a illness of the bosom that tin lone beryllium cured with gold.”

As president, AMLO would invoke the Conquest to rally nationalist sentiment. His words often antagonized Spain, specified arsenic erstwhile helium insisted that the king “publicly and officially” admit the abuses committed during the conquest of Mexico.

This occurrence resulted successful a cooling of diplomatic relations betwixt the 2 countries, arsenic the Spanish Crown did not respond to López Obrador’s letter.

In October, the Spanish authorities utilized the indebtedness of pre-Hispanic artifacts to Madrid museums to suggest that Spain mightiness bespeak connected its assemblage history.

The erstwhile president is already moving connected “the 2nd pillar of Mexican humanism,” which volition beryllium entitled “Gloria.” Scheduled for work adjacent year, the publication volition code Mexico’s governmental history.

With reports from El Financiero, Infobae, Milenio, El Imparcial and El País