Who Wants to Meet Mexico’s Most Reviled Man? De Mauleón and Loret de Mola Discuss López Beltrán Gathering

The question posed by Carlos Loret de Mola was blunt: “Who wants to meet the most reviled man in Mexico?” He was discussing the reported gathering of Andrés Manuel and Gonzalo López Beltrán with Morena lawmaker Daniel Asaf and two businessmen at Magazzino, a restaurant in Mexico City’s Condesa neighborhood.

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Who wants to meet the most reviled man in Mexico? The rich hate him for pretending to be poor, and the poor hate him because he is rich. Why do they sit down with him? Because they believe he still has power within the Movement for National Regeneration, he is López Obrador’s heir, and the president has defended him.

Héctor de Mauleón and Loret de Mola examined the meeting on the program Con los de Casa, alongside EL UNIVERSAL editorial director David Aponte and columnist Maite Azuela. De Mauleón’s report, published on Aug. 31, disclosed that two of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s sons had attended the gathering.

The commentators said the episode undercut the austerity policy promoted by López Obrador and continued by President Claudia Sheinbaum. De Mauleón said that meeting to order very expensive food contradicted the principles López Obrador had promoted for years. At the restaurant, an Australian chef prepares dishes based on his own ideas, and the group reportedly opened a bottle of Sassicaia wine priced between 16,000 and 24,000 pesos.

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When they get together and order extremely expensive things, they trample on the principles Andrés Manuel López Obrador spent years bombarding us with.

Loret de Mola questioned why anyone would sit down with Andrés Manuel López Beltrán after the scandals surrounding him, including a July 2025 trip to Japan, alleged dealings involving medicine and public works in Sinaloa, and the withdrawal of his visa. He said wealthy people resent him for pretending to be poor, while poorer people resent him because he is rich. In Loret de Mola’s view, they meet him because they believe he still holds power within Morena, as López Obrador’s heir, and because Sheinbaum has defended him.

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At the popular level, this is something that stays forever.

De Mauleón said the episode would remain with López Beltrán in the public mind. Loret de Mola called him a symbol of Morena’s hypocrisy and said he would suffer politically, particularly because López Obrador had wanted him to become president in 2030. He concluded that voters or the U.S. government hold the key to López Beltrán’s future.

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Andy López Beltrán has become the symbol of Morena’s hypocrisy.