Ricardo Salinas Pliego has covid; test positive

Ricardo Salinas Pliego tested positive for covid-19. This was announced by the president of Salinas Group through your Twitter account, where shared a picture of the test that was performedor. However, the businessman said he is confident that he will cope with the disease.

“With the news that I have # COVID19, so to take care of yourself and not be afraid, as I always said … you have to give us all and we will be fine,” he wrote.

The 64-year-old businessman criticized on different occasions the application of isolation measures to control the advance of the pandemic, as well as the closure of the economy and the use of public force to restrict mobility. “The damn virus is never going to go away and no one knows when there will be a vaccine or cure,” he said last June.

“We have to learn to coexist with the virus. It is one more risk that life presents us. I am convinced that what is responsible is to add and build an adequate solution for our country. I respect the voices that think differently and I hope they respect my the right to express opinions and differ from them, “he added at that time in a message addressed to the public and the authorities.

Salinas Pliego, who turns 65 in five days, went so far as to affirm that the closures and isolation caused enormous damage to the country’s economy, and asked the members of the health council not to interfere in the decision-making of those who opposed it. to lock themselves in their houses.

Yesterday, the Mexican businessman caused controversy on social networks after sharing an essay, in which he affirmed that workers are the only ones responsible for obtaining a “decent” pension, as he assures that it is a “benefit” that is obtained “as a result of decades of effort. “

The president of TV Azteca He shared on his social networks a controversial text entitled “Your pension is not free” that he published last Sunday on his blog. In this publication, the founder of TV Azteca assures that employees would be obliged to save “in order to achieve a secure future,” and also pointed out that only they should contribute to their own pension.

He assured that pensioners must “sacrifice personal and family consumption” to aspire to a “dignified future”, even pointing out that the employer should not contribute to the pension.

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