Mexico City, Jan 19 (EFE).- Twitter “partially blocked” the account of Mexican tycoon Ricardo Salinas Pliego, the third richest man in the country, for harassment, as revealed on Wednesday by the businessman himself on his Instagram profile.
“Your account, @RicardoBSalinas, was blocked for breaking Twitter’s rules. Specifically for the following reasons: breaking the rules that prohibit abuse and harassment,” set the message of the social network that the tycoon shared on a screenshot.
The businessman’s tweet, removed by Twitter, called for a “meme contest” with derogatory terms against political analyst Denise Dresser, former federal government official Simón Levy and commentator Nacho Rodríguez, close to the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
“There are people who seek to promote their ideas and silence the ideas of others, groups of people who get along and can’t stand (stand). They organized and denounced my last publication as if it were selective harassment,” the tycoon said on his Instagram .
Controversial millionaire
This is the latest controversy of Salinas Pliego, who appears on the Forbes list as the third richest man in Mexico with an estimated fortune of 12.52 billion dollars in 2021, only behind Carlos Slim, from América Móvil, and Germán Larrea. , of the Mexico Group.
The founder of Grupo Salinas, which includes media companies such as TV Azteca and financial companies such as Banco Azteca, has defended economic inequality as “a natural condition” and has rejected measures to stop the coronavirus pandemic. covid-19.
It has also received questionable multimillion-dollar contracts from the government of López Obrador, who last week “celebrated” his intention to buy the Mexican National Bank (Banamex) after the departure of the American Citigroup.
“I will be here, on my Facebook account, on Instagram and on TikTok reading them and chatting with you while I resolve the issue on Twitter”, warned after the blocking of his account, which still shows the previous messages.
The businessman has used his Twitter account to directly mock his critics and defend controversial ideas, such as rejecting the restrictions due to covid-19 and that the National Electoral Institute (INE) “must die and disappear.”
“To those who are hurt when I tell them the truth and oppose everything that is not what they want… I’m not going to leave,” he said.
(c) EFE Agency
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