The others, as you know, said I had joined the party out of self-interest. Of course I joined out of self-interest. But there are all kinds of self-interest and I was tired of preaching in a vacuum. I wanted power, that I won’t deny. I wanted free rein to change some things in this country. I won’t deny that either. I wanted to improve public health and the public schools and do my bit to prepare Mexico to enter the twenty-first century. If that’s self-interest, so be it. Of course, I didn’t achieve much.
