MEXICO CITY, August 8 (EL UNIVERSAL).- Mario Di Costanzo, former federal deputy and former head of the National Commission for the Protection and Defense of Users of Financial Services (Condusef) in the six-year term of Enrique Peña Nieto, responded to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for mentioning it this Monday morning.
López Obrador assured in the National Palace that racism, classism and discrimination are emerging, “now more”, and attributed classist, racist and discriminatory comments to Lorenzo Córdova, president of the INE, and to Di Costanzo.
“Another case that even saddens me, because I proposed him as Secretary of the Treasury, is called Mario Di Costanzo,” López Obrador said, saying that he considered the former head of Condusef for his cabinet and agreed to be proposed.
“It was going so well, it had an important role, it had a lot of sympathy from the people, because it had also studied at ITAM and that was fashionable. Saying ITAM was the equivalent of saying technical knowledge, stability, conservatism, continuity of the project, neoliberalism , International Monetary Fund, World Bank (…) teachers, Aspe, Videgaray, Meade, that is, Carstens, were the ones who were managing economic policy.
“Then we proposed it to Mario Di Costanzo, later he was a deputy and I don’t know how; if there are no convictions, the temptations of power are not resisted, people are levitated, they lose ground, the only thing that anchors are principles, ideals, love to the people and especially the love for the poor and not turning your back on those who suffer, that is what endures (…),” said López Obrador.
As Mario Di Costanzo came from ITAM, “he couldn’t stand it and in 2012, his teacher, his partner Videgaray invited him and he got into the government and right there, and now it turns out that he is our adversary,” said López Obrador.
López Obrador recalled that Mario Di Costanzo wrote an article in the newspaper La Jornada, in 2007, “and he put in his article: ‘as the saying goes, the Indian is not to blame, but the one who makes him compadre’, most racist , but to write it in La Jornada, is that they did not see it as something offensive, detestable, well, a vile racist expression. No!”
After the remarks of President López Obrador in his morning conference, Mario Di Costanzo reacted.
Through his social networks, the former Labor Party deputy thanked López Obrador for spending a lot of time with him in the morning: “My conviction to serve the people has not changed; but to serve him and his whims.”
“Once again in the morning the President refers to an article that I wrote more than 15 years ago! And that he titled with a “saying”. Costanzo in another message.
Given the indications of his work at the invitation of Luis Videgaray, Mario Di Costanzo specified López Obrador: “Mr. President López Obrador. Dr. Luis Videgaray was not my teacher, he was my boss and he invited me to work at CONDUSEF, a position that It allowed me to help many people and build a great and noble institution, which unfortunately they are now destroying.”
“I was not invited, I was summoned, at the time, by the Government of Mexico to occupy the position and take charge of protecting users of financial services, especially marginalized groups,” he stressed.
“What strikes me is that it is seen that the President reads his former treasury secretary of the legitimate government more than his current treasury secretary!” he added in another message.
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