This May 10, Mother’s Day, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador dedicated his conference La Mañanera to the mothers of Mexico, but Who was the president’s mother?
Manuela Obrador González, was a woman of spanish ancestry, on the side of his father (AMLO’s grandfather), José Obrador Revuelta, arrived in Mexico from Spain fleeing the First World War. Obrador Revuelta married Úrsula González Guzmán, who also had Spanish ancestry, as she was the daughter of José González Viñas, a Spaniard.
Manuela was born on December 24, 1922 in Tabasco, where he dedicated himself to commerce with the sale and exchange of rice and beans. She married Andrés López Ramón with whom she had 7 children, among them the current president López Obrador.
Over time, Manuelita, as AMLO calls her, founded a store which became the most important in Tepetitán, municipality of Macuspana, Tabasco.
It was on May 10, 2017, when the then candidate for the country’s presidency shared an image of his mother during his youth, accompanied by the message “Eternal love to Manuelita and congratulations to all the moms.”
Mrs. Obrador’s influence on the president is something that he himself has openly recognized. One of those occasions was on March 8, International Women’s Day, in 2022, when he took advantage of the commemoration to point out that he was what It was for his mother.
“I myself am what I am because of my mother, My father also influenced my education, but fundamentally my mother, there was more matriarchy than patriarchy in my family,” AMLO said on that occasion.
It was on Saturday May 6, 2000, when AMLO’s mother died, at 2 in the afternoon, when the now president was a candidate of the Alliance for Mexico City for the head of Government of Mexico City.
He also recalled that his mother voted for the activist Rosario Ibarra de Piedra when she was a candidate for the presidency of the Republic, in 1982 and 1988. “My mother voted for Mrs. Rosario when she was a candidate for president. Women are sublime and must be protected and respected and guarantee spaces for participation and what I have been saying: economic equality, there can be no feminism without the fight for economic and social equality,” she mentioned.
Manuela Obrador He was 72 years old when he died. in Veracruz due to cardiac arrest, he was visiting the house of one of his children, in the municipality of Isla, Veracruz.
The current president was on a proselytizing tour when he received the news, abandoning everything to meet with his family in Villa Hermosa, Tabasco, where his mother was laid to rest and buried.
This Friday, during the song Amor Eterno, by Juan Gabriel performed by the mariachi group Son de México, the camera captured how President López Obrador was on the verge of tears as he has repeatedly mentioned that this song reminds him of his mother.
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