I’ve Just Loved Him Very Much”: Beatriz Gutiérrez Responds to Journalists During AMLO’s Morning Press Conference

Doctor, you covered a space in the President's emotional life because he suffered the loss of the one who preceded him, Mrs. Rocío Beltrán. That's right. We were even there when she died. How did you cover the human expectation, the feelings, and above all, the moment of a defeat like it was in 2012, with electoral fraud or not, of Mr. Andrés Manuel López Obrador? Let's see, if you specify your question, because you're talking about a decade of difference. Well, I think he should answer that, because it's a question of how to cover the emotionality of a couple. Do you want to answer? I have loved him very much. How did you do it? It was very important, because I commented a few days ago that one of my children wanted me to take him to a circus, but I couldn't, because he was working on the construction of a movement to transform Mexico. And that required going to the towns, to the squares, meeting with the people, five daily meetings, and the one who stayed with my children was my late wife. When she gets ahead of us, I also need a companion, because the fight continues and I rely on Beatriz. In very difficult times, she supports me, gives me strength and affection to move forward, so as not to die. My mother said when she met him, how lucky you are, you are taking my daughter Beatriz. Yes, that's what my adversaries say, the conservatives, that she fell in love with me because she is quite in love. How terrible. She is so delicate, so exquisite, studious, a doctor. In what? Doctorate in hidden sciences? No, literature. For a Mazorrat from Petitan, Macuspana, Tabasco. Patarrajada Indian. The Patarrajada Indian is handsome. But it was fundamental, the support is until now, and this happens in all families, in all families. I have always said that the main institution of social security in Mexico is the family. Just as culture or cultures or our pre-Hispanic past has protected us and saved us, so have our families. They have helped us to move forward and have avoided social decomposition in our country. Because the Mexican family is very fraternal, it is very solidary. If a member of the family is not doing well, others come to their aid. And what we have always talked about here, and we have to continue saying, commenting. The children, the fact that we do not abandon that extraordinary, beautiful custom that our children are always with us. And that with all due respect for what happens in other places, in other countries, it is not established that they are just finishing adolescence and they already have to go. Awaken el alma. See what they do. That is what we want to do with Jesus, to be with him. As long as it is. But that's how it happens in our families. And that is very important, because you should not allow emptiness, disloyalty in children, in young people. They must always have the security that they are loved. Always. And do not say, let's see, you are already independent. And see you, if anything, once a year. Oh no. Yes, that's how it happens in some places. And what happens? Well, that lack of affection, of love, generates emptiness. What do they want to fill themselves with? Or do they intend to fill those voids with drugs? And that happiness is momentary, it is transient. It becomes unhappiness. So, why is there not, this is very important, why is there not so much addiction to drugs in Mexico? Because there are mothers who are ... For the family. And fathers too. For the family. We have to take good care of that. Because yes, there may be sowing, as there is, we are not going to cover the sun with a finger, of marijuana, poppy, laboratories where chemical drugs are made, traffic, but no consumption. Or not the consumption that is in other parts. If we, in addition to this, that we have to fight, that marijuana plants are sown, that laboratories are built to make chemicals, that we have to keep fighting. But if, in addition to that, drug trafficking grows and consumption grows, then we would live in a very, very serious situation, much more difficult than the one we are facing. So, they are institutions that we must preserve, take care of. And it is what comes from the deep past, from deep Mexico. That is why classism and racism bother me a lot. Because it is to continue to undermine the value of the great civilizations that flourished in Mexico before, much before the arrival of the Europeans. And all, not all, a good part or most of the good that we Mexicans have comes from that deep past. It is the great reserve of cultural, moral and spiritual values that come from time ago. So, they made us believe. Diego Prieto de Lina was passionate about a speech in Bacalar, Quintana Roo, on Sunday. They came with that stupidity that they brought us civilization. And many stayed with that. That must be faced, not racism. Because that denied us, we came to deny what we are. And they made us complex, and we became more complex. When are we heirs of great civilizations? When Mexico is a cultural power in the world. But the same in the social, the same in the political. The first social revolution of the 20th century in the world. The most advanced social constitution in the world. Three important transformations. Independence, reform, revolution. And this fourth transformation. And I was very pleased, for example, I'm finishing. Look, there are many hands up. I was very pleased yesterday in the debate, I was watching it. Oh no, let's talk about that better. No, no, I was very pleased that Mrs. Kamala and President Trump both treated Mexico with respect. And there we go, moving forward. We respect other peoples, other governments, brothers. And that they respect us as an independent, free and sovereign country. Let's go with you.