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The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced this Wednesday in his morning conference a raffle of confiscated assets for the month of September.
"It is about returning to the people assets that have been confiscated or residences, such as airplanes, everything we can raffle, so that what is obtained is used for the development of the country," said the president.
The organization of the raffle will be in charge of the National Lottery.
Its general director, Margarita González, affirmed in the morning conference that this will be the first time that prizes in kind have been made.
In total there are 22 awards: 8 houses, 7 apartments, 5 lots, 1 ranch and 1 box in the Azteca state.
The assets are located in different parts of the country: there are 8 in Mexico City, 5 in Baja California and 2 in Jalisco, Guanajuato and Guerrero.
The rest are in Querétaro, Sinaloa and Morelos, González explained.
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One of the prizes that will surely arouse the most interest is the box at the Azteca stadium, which has 20 seats, a bathroom, a kitchenette and 4 parking spaces.
It was acquired in 1984 by officials and the total value, both in kind and in cash, is more than US $ 1,000,000, González said.
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"We consider the box at the Azteca stadium a special prize, it will be for a single winner.
It is valid for use until 2065 and includes the maintenance of the box for 10 years ”, explained the director of the National Lottery.
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The jackpot of the raffle is a house in Mexico City with 4 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, terraces and a garden.
The total value in kind and cash is almost US $ 4,000,000.
González said that 2 million tickets will be put on sale, with a value for each “little bit” of 250 Mexican pesos, about US $ 12 and will be available from this Friday in the metropolitan area and from Monday throughout the country .
The draw will be on September 15, the day that the independence of Mexico is celebrated.
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This is not the first raffle carried out by the López Obrador government in Mexico.
In September 2020, the presidential plane was raffled, although the prize was not the plane itself, but cash.
On March 1 of that year, the tickets were put on sale and 6 million tickets were distributed.
Each one with a cost of 500 Mexican pesos, about US $ 26.
More than 3,000 street vendors in the metropolitan area and more than 2,600 in the rest of the country were in charge of selling those tickets.
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