Morena senator buys, distributes thousands of copies of AMLO’s book

Morena Senate coordinator, Adán Augusto López Hernández, came to the Senate bearing gifts this week, successful the signifier of much than 17,000 copies of erstwhile President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s caller book. 

Hundreds of achromatic boxes filled with AMLO’s tome, “Grandeza” (“Greatness”), each contained a paper with the connection “With benignant regards from Adán Augusto López Hernández, Senator of the Republic.”

Senator Adán Augusto López Hernández, precocious bearded, attended Morena’s solemnisation of 7 years successful powerfulness past play successful Mexico City’s Zócalo. López Hernández served arsenic interior caput successful the López Obrador medication and arsenic politician of AMLO’s location authorities of Tabasco. (Mario Jasso/Cuartoscuro)

“Others usually springiness turkeys and things similar that; I springiness them books,” said the senator, who wore a Santa Claus headdress for the occasion.

López Hernández lone delivered books to senators from his (and AMLO’s) ain party, Morena. He said that helium had fixed 100 copies to each of the 69 Morena senators, though if each received 13 boxes of 20 copies, arsenic reported, the fig would presumably beryllium higher. 

The aim, according to López Hernández, is for senators to administer the books to Morena supporters during their visits to their communities and districts.

The book’s publishing house, Planeta, acceptable the retail terms of “Grandeza” astatine 448 pesos (US $25), meaning that the full spent connected the books could beryllium arsenic precocious arsenic 7.6 cardinal pesos ($417,500). 

Adán said helium purchased the books with his ain money, though helium said successful a connection that helium didn’t support way of the full magnitude helium spent connected them. One senator, Eugenio Segura, said helium paid for the 10 boxes of books helium received, which helium intends to administer successful his authorities of Quintana Roo.

The purpose of the organisation seems to beryllium astatine slightest arsenic overmuch astir enactment promotion arsenic astir the edification of constituents. “This is simply a amusement of enactment for President López Obrador, enactment for our President Claudia Sheinbaum, and enactment for our movement,” said Segura.

López Obrador introduced “Grandeza” connected November 30 by video broadcast from his ranch successful Palenque, successful Mexico’s confederate Chiapas state. The lawsuit marked his archetypal important nationalist quality since leaving the presidency successful October 2024.

López Obrador said that the publication aims to vindicate the Indigenous peoples of past Mexico, exalt their taste bequest and situation the authoritative mentation of the Conquest.

“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.”

During the presentation, AMLO reiterated his withdrawal from governmental life, with plans to proceed writing. He said helium would lone instrumentality to nationalist beingness nether 3 conditions: to support democracy, to enactment Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum successful the lawsuit of a coup effort oregon to support nationalist sovereignty.

The publication has been successful precocious request since its release, with copies selling retired wrong the archetypal fewer days astatine the Guadalajara International Book Fair. 

 With reports from El Financiero and El Universal