Breathe
By Claudia Pérez Atamoros
This is how former President Miguel Alemán expressed himself when he learned of the appointment of Dr. Rosa Luz Alegría as the first woman Secretary of State in Mexico, in the cabinet of José López Portillo, in a clear, very clear! allusion to the extramarital relationship they had...
(Ultra File)
How strong, isn't it?
Corruptions of all kinds occurred during that six-year term; in his relations with power, with his entourage and, of course, the most popular ones were the amorous ones... because López Portillo was a very merry eye.
His actions became memorable because they were anecdotal and deplorable because they were scandalous.
If you don't believe me, ask Lyn May.
To enumerate the number of bedroom events that have taken place around Mexican political power would require the elaboration of several volumes...
And I'm not exaggerating, believe me.
During a tour to Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, the two were brazen, holding hands and giving each other sheepish half-dying looks , they promised the press to meet them in the same place in the year 2000.....
We all know what happened next.
At the end of the six-year term, the breakup...
Newspapers began to speculate about other romances...
Jolopo separated from Carmen Romano and began a relationship with actress Sasha Montenegro.
Shortly before López died, his first-born son, whom he defined as "the pride of my nepotism" accused his wife, by then already wife, of mistreating and beating his father.
Oh, poor thing!
Next to Sasha, López "PorPillo" lived and enjoyed La Colina del Perro. That house, an emblem of the monumental corruption of the presidential administration, was built on a 12-hectare plot...
It is said that Rosa Luz never recovered from that loss of love and power and that little by little she lost her mind until one day she ended up in the middle of a cobblestone street in San Jeronimo -according to Alfonso Diez- naked and completely out of place.
An archive that has disappeared due to the usual corruption.
Years later, another story of a gun and a bullet was told again, one that hit him in the buttock and came out of his abdomen, God knows how, while he was vacationing in Morelos... the official version does not add up either.
Rosa Luz Alegria's intelligence as well as her emblematic appointment was overshadowed by her intimacy with Jolopo and his rudeness and oddities.
According to the vox populi, he used to travel in a classic 1964 Jaguar and lived on Magnolia Street in a house acquired after his rapid rise in Mexican politics.
A woman of controversy for her actions and feelings, once the six-year term was over she disappeared from the public eye and it was not until 1999 that she gave her last interview to the program Mujeres y poder, where she made it clear that her private life was private. And not so much...
She was the wife of Luis Echeverría's first son, with whom she had a son. And before that, she was Marcelino Perelló's girlfriend, back in the 60s, when they were student leaders in the '68 movement.
Both characters of Mexican politics, Jolopo and Rosa Luz, were the protagonists of many anecdotes.
Many agate lines were written about them in the country's newspapers, because when it was not one, it was another.
Countless jokes and rumors were told.
One after the other they accumulated print runs and eight columns.
Of that woman who for 27 months became the first Secretary of State, only the memory of the scandal remains. Today she is 80 years old and only God knows where and how she lives.
His talent did not transcend.
Her intelligence did not stand out and her achievements as the first Secretary of State were overshadowed; in the popular imagination her private life, which as a public woman she never denied, was perpetuated.
*Claudia Pérez Atamoros, reporter, writer and copywriter.
Today, he researches, writes and tells.
The opinions expressed are the responsibility of the authors and are absolutely independent of the position and editorial line of the company. Opinion 51.
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