The historian who did not leave (but the media insists that she did)
Ah, the media and their obsession with creating dramas where there are none. Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, wife of the eternal protagonist of Mexican politics, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has had to come out to deny — with all the elegance and sarcasm that characterizes an academic fed up with fake news — that she has moved to Spain. The reason? A poor Spanish newspaper, ABC, decided that its new mission in life was to make her the queen of La Moraleja, the Madrid neighborhood where, apparently, only the uncomfortable characters for the right end up.
“No, I didn’t leave, but thanks for asking”
In a message on “I’m still here, teaching, researching and, from time to time, visiting my husband in Palenque,” she said, as if it were the most normal thing in the world that an academic has to clarify her whereabouts every now and then. Of course, he couldn’t help but drop a pearl about the ABC: “professional slanderers of the most rancid right“, he called them. Come on, he didn’t exactly give them a bouquet of flowers.
And of course, how could I not defend AMLO in the process? According to her, her husband—that “nice man from Macuspana”—has achieved things as unthinkable as reducing poverty and, in the process, infuriating those who previously believed they were owners of the country. “Those who felt like masters and lords no longer steal or rule,” he declared, with that mixture of pride and defiance that so characterizes Lopez Obradorism.
Sheinbaum also enters the scene
In case anyone doubted her word, President Claudia Sheinbaum—yes, the one who inherited AMLO’s baton—came out to support her: “She lives in Mexico,” she said, as if she were confirming something as obvious as that the sun rises in the east. But hey, in times of social media and fake news, even the most obvious needs official validation.
The funniest thing of all is that this media circus was born because, according to ABC, Gutiérrez Müller would have settled in Spain to live with his son. The problem? Which she herself clarified: “Neither does Jesús Ernesto.” In other words, neither she nor her son are there. But who needs facts when you can have a good headline?
So, in summary: a Mexican historian, married to a controversial former president, denies having moved to Europe while the conservative media insists otherwise. Sound familiar? Of course yes, because in Mexican politics, if there is no scandal, it is invented. And if not, at the same time.
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