“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador shared a video recorded from the archaeological site of Palenque, in Chiapas, with a message for the New Year, through which he stressed that he is optimistic about what will happen in 2023, highlighting Mexico’s cultural greatness.
“What better place to wish a good year in 2023, to wish personally that we enjoy good health and be very happy and publicly, to tell you that I am optimistic and I want to transmit this optimism to all Mexicans,” said the president.
“And what I base my optimism on, fundamentally on this, on what we Mexicans are, on this cultural greatness. We are heirs of great cultures, splendid civilizations,” he expressed in the video, which lasts 5 minutes and 49 seconds, published on his various social network accounts.
In addition, the head of the Federal Executive Power assured that the people of Mexico were built before the arrival of the Spaniards and ironized saying that “there are still those who maintain that they brought us civilization, because ‘we were barbarians'”.
Likewise, López Obrador said that the country’s greatest wealth is that it has an honest people, a reason that causes his optimism. He also added that, despite adversities, such as floods, earthquakes, bad governments and pandemics, Mexico has known how to move forward thanks to its strength.
“We are heirs of all those traditions, customs and what have they left us? Extraordinary virtues, such as, for example, that the people of Mexico are honest. The greatest wealth of Mexico today is honesty, that is why I speak of optimism and I believe that we will do very well in 2023”, he insisted.
“Mexico is very strong, because of its cultures, traditions, because it has a good, honest and hardworking people. I convey my optimism to them and send them a hug. It is going to be a good year in 2023”, concluded the President of the Republic, in the video, in which the politician from Tabasco can be seen standing in front of the Temple of the Inscriptions.