Post by account_disabled on Mar 7, 2024 1:29:37 GMT -5
After years of pursuing the presidency of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador managed to achieve it on December 1, 2018. More than half of the Mexican population supported the proposals expressed during his candidacy; However, today, many question them in practice.
Although the majority of Mexicans support the president, he has been one of the politicians who has caused the most controversy due to his decisions, some of them in relation to the business sector.
Among his first announcements he announced that he would form a Business Advisory Council , made up of experts in the field to support him in achieving growth and well-being in the country.
Businessmen close to AMLO
Who are the businessmen who support it?
Business figures belonging to the most powerful media in the country have been found on this Council, such as the Executive Vice President of Grupo Televisa, Bernardo Gómez, and the Mexican businessman Salinas Pliego, belonging to TV Azteca.
Other prominent figures are Olegario Vázquez Chile Mobile Number List Aldir, businessman belonging to Grupo Imagen; Carlos Hank González, politician, and Miguel Alemán Magnani, members of Interjet; Daniel Chávez Morán, developer of Vidanta Hotels; Sergio Gutiérrez Muguerza, president of the Deacero group; and Miguel Rincón Arredondo, president of the Board of Directors of Bio Pappel.
This group of men has in their hands the ability to advise the leader of an entire country, but we must take into account that this has not been and is not their only task, on the contrary, they had previously established their own positions within empires. business; situation that has even sometimes caused a conflict of interest with the current government.
Such was the case of Rincón Arredondo. According to Expansión , Bio Pappel had to give up a contract it won through a tender to provide the paper for textbooks to the Ministry of Public Education, since this action “supported the vision of suspicion-proof transparency.” that the President of the Republic promoted.”
However, little by little the relationship between the executive and business sectors has smoothed out rough edges, an action that has allowed renegotiations to be closed with companies such as Carso Energy, belonging to Carlos Slim who participated in a “morning” conference by the president to clearly explain how It had been that agreement.
Slim and AMLO
Photo: El Financiero
The link has been reinforced in such a way that Slim was in the last López Obrador Government Report, next to Salazar, leader of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE), and del Valle himself.
Despite the current ties, AMLO maintains that the separation of economic power from political power is definitive.
Mexico and its commitment to Social Responsibility
It is important to remember that Mexico is one of the countries committed to sustainable development. In 2015, it signed the Paris Agreement , a global action plan that consists of taking actions to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions.
Mexico is a participant in the 2030 Agenda, which includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals with specific goals that constitute a comprehensive and multisectoral plan.
Currently there are several companies that have already joined these initiatives, carrying out corporate social responsibility actions.
ESR badge
One of the recognitions granted to praise social responsibility efforts is the ESR Distinction , awarded annually in Mexico by the Mexican Center for Philanthropy (Cemefi) and AliaRSE.
It should be noted that this distinction is not a certification, since to obtain it an audit process is not carried out, but only a self-diagnosis.
Obtaining the Distinction adds profitability and value to the brand, which results in accreditation of the company to its employees, investors, clients, authorities and society as an organization publicly committed to social responsibility.
This commitment must be endorsed year after year to maintain the culture of corporate responsibility in force.
It is very important to note that the ESR Distinction is not the only initiative that companies can join, but it is one of the most recognized.
And AMLO's advisors?
How many of the companies of the members of the Business Advisory Council of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador have the ESR Distinction?
According to the report generated by CEMEFI in 2019 , it is possible to see that approximately 50% of the companies where business advisors are active have received the ESR Distinction.
This makes us wonder: how much of the advice that López Obrador receives is aligned with social responsibility initiatives? Or, on the contrary, are these proposals not in the discussion?
It is difficult to know the answer, since sometimes the President seems to lean towards sustainability in statements but not so much in deeds.
These are the companies of the members of AMLO's advisory council, which have received the ESR Distinction.