AMLO leads a tribute to the governor of Puebla Miguel Barbosa, whom he described as a “fighter for democracy”

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One day after the death of the Mexican governor of the state of Puebla, Miguel Barbosa Huerta , the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, lamented his loss again and described him as a “fighter for democracy”.

“ He has been a fighter for democracy for many years . I met him there by 2022, 90-90 in town . He is originally from Tehuacán of that region. I was doing relatively little with him in his town about 2 years ago, we started the school is ours program there in his town”, he said.

From his morning conference, the Mexican president recalled when he lived with Barbosa Huerta during the commemoration of the Battle of Puebla on May 5.

“This year we lived together a lot, we were in the commemoration of the Battle of Puebla, May 5, was a very important tribute to those who fought for our country, he was very insistent that I should attend and be in the entire civic-military parade in Puebla and I accompanied him,” he recalled.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador also recalled from the National Palace that Miguel Barbosa was the one who promoted the idea of ​​carrying out the march for the four years of government held last 80 of November.

“We found sections several times, the last time was in the march recently , before we had been in Zozutla, Puebla, where the Ayala plan for the limits of Guerrero with Puebla was signed , we were together, from there arose his proposal to be a demonstration a march in Puebla to defend the government and the transformation when the onslaught of the conservatives and before anyone else he called for that mobilization, that led to the report becoming a march and he was with us at the beginning of the march, we were together and then in Puebla he also later mobilized, so his death is very unfortunate and we are going to pay tribute to him and we will always keep him in mind because he fought for many years and he always comes from below making his way, facing adversities”, he recounted.

Later, the Mexican president moved to the state of Puebla to lead the posthumous tribute to Miguel Barbosa

in the “Casa Aguayo”.

There López Obrador recounted how Barbosa Huerta joined the transformation he heads and becomes governor of Puebla, in addition to providing full support to the relatives of the deceased.

“I convey my condolences to all the people of this progressive state of Puebla. I knew Miguel for many years when the fight for democracy began, around 15 years and we worked together in Puebla and throughout the country. I have very good memories of him and there came a time when we parted ways, but it didn’t take us long to get back together,” he mentioned.

“ I remember that before the presidential election I invited him, he was a senator for another party and I called him to join and together we achieved the transformation that the country needed and that fortunately is underway and he accepted, adhered, joined our fight”, he commented.

“He was so In order to end our cause, he (Miguel Barbosa) was the first to talk about the fact that we should hold a march (80 November) and had already summoned her, I was thinking of a report only with members of the cabinet… The original initiative was Miguel’s and we met there,” he acknowledged.

” We are here paying this tribute to her, supporting Rosario, her forever partner , your advisor, your great ally and I am very pleased that governors, governors, compañeras, compañeros, also members of the cabinet are here together with our brother with our compañero Miguel Barbosa in this tribute “, ended.

After his words, López Obrador set up an honor guard along with Miguel Barbosa’s wife, Mrs. María del Rosario Orozco , and members of the federal and state cabinet.