President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador He took advantage of the days off for Easter to take a vacation at his house in Palenque called “La Chingada” and return to work the next Monday.
The land that is in the middle of the jungle, on the Pakal-Ná-Palenque highway, was inherited from the federal president by his parents.
“This house was built by my mother, we are six brothers and they gave each brother a hectare, and because I was the oldest, I got their house,” said the president in the documentary ‘This I am’, published on YouTube.
López Obrador’s country house has dozens of tropical and timber trees, such as cedar, it also has different species of birds, in addition to the fact that it has a small pond inside.
The president assures that he visits this place when he needs to reflect, analyze and distance himself from the circumstances. “When I can, I come here, it is where I strengthen myself spiritually,” emphasizes López Obrador.
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Why is the fifth called ‘La Chingada’?
López Obrador said that the property has that name because Genovevo de la O, a leader of the revolution, and that at the end of the armed conflict he retired to his ranch and called it “La Chingada”.
“Do you know why ‘La Chingada’? A Zapatista leader, Genovevo de la O, after the revolution went to a little ranch and he named it like that, and they always told him where Genovevo was going and he said ‘I’m going to La Chingada’”, narrated the president of the Executive.
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