The historian emphasized the journalists who attacked Madero and his new government after the Mexican Revolution, who, she said, had remained silent in the face of the Porfirian dictatorship, which is why she again paraphrased Gonzalez Garza in one of her writings from 1936; “Madero then had no worse enemy, more cruel, more ruthless, more infamous, more perverse and vile than the group of journalists who had previously been lackey admirers of the dictatorship.”

Historically, there has been talk of the post-revolutionary period plagued by servility by the press, in which, it is said, the main newspapers such as El Mañana, La Tribuna, El Heraldo and El País, among others, altered the truth about Madero to leave the popular impression that the new president did not know how to govern.

It was striking that Beatriz chose this fragment, especially when Andrés Manuel has criticized the role that the press has taken during his government.

Following the words of Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, the Argentine president accompanied López Obrador to place a flower arrangement and to stand guard for Francisco I Madero. Minutes later they toured the museum dedicated to the former president assassinated in 1913, located in the National Palace, where the martyr of the Tragic Decade was imprisoned more than a century ago.

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