Excerpt from a Cracks Podcast interview where Mauricio Sulaimán discusses the emotional aftermath of his parents' deaths, the suddenness of being nominated and elected president of the WBC by acclamation, and living under the public legacy of his father, Don José Sulaimán. The passage emphasizes grief, identity (being his father’s son), and the tension between continuing his father's work and establishing his own path.
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I told my mother there in the cemetery that I wasn't going to continue. And she said, you're totally wrong.
Look, See this? You're going to abandon and betray the.
Organization that means so much to your father.
So there we agreed, my wife, my mother and I, that. No. Well, yes. You know, I can stay on as.
Executive secretary or lead a committee or whatever. The meeting is held in three weeks because there has to be an election for a new president.
The president passed away and we had.
Dinner the night before.
I never ran for office, and just.
At the time of the meeting, someone stood up and nominated me. And I was elected by acclamation. There was no unanimous vote or anything.
So for me it was strange, very.
Difficult feelings because I couldn't even mourn my father. And suddenly I was the president.
But everything I'll ever do in my.
Life will be thanks to my father.
He's my calling card wherever I go. People express themselves in an incredible way.
About Don Jose Suleiman.
People I don't.
Know, or people I do know tell me anecdotes and stories.
And honestly, for me, Jose Suleiman, my old man, is the most incredible person.
Who has ever existed in the world.
It's been hard to live a life under that shadow.
I understand all the good that it brings.
There are times when you say, well, I need to change certain things now.
Do things differently, be myself.
No, no, I've never competed with my dad. I mean, I've never said, oh, now.
I'm going to do this for me.
No, no, no. On the contrary, he is.
There are times when I try to.
Get him to send me signals, to.
Try to see how to resolve some.
Issue, but I have never felt any weight. On the contrary, as I was saying.
Being his son opens doors for me.
Helps me, gives me moral authority, unexpected.
Affection from people.
And that's how it happens. Now that my mother died, it was very difficult. When you are an orphan who was.
Both the father and the mother.
And it was recently. Yes, a year ago. And that has been a much more.
Difficult process for my whole family than when my father died.
Why do you think? Well, the mother is the mother. M.
