It might not have superceded 100,000, the number the organizers behind Thursday's march in Guadalajara, Jalisco, hoped to surpass, but the
march to protest Governor Emilio González Márquez' education policies, or lack thereof, was nonetheless a stunning success. González Márquez, a notorious alcoholic and public drunkard who tightly allied with the most reactionary elements of the Mexican Catholic Church and has been involved in scandals too numerous to recount
here, has faced barrages of criticism for starving the
UdeG, or
Universidad de Guadalajara, of hundreds of millions of pesos in federal funds that González Márquez refuses to release.
Apparently, as González Márquez became aware of the magnitude of the march against him, he
showed up drunk unexpectedly at the home of former rector of UdeG Raúl Padilla López to threaten and beg him to cancel the march, without success, and promised to finally release the money the university is entitled to from the federal government. Excerpt from the dialogue:
González Márquez: "Raúl, are you drunk yet"?
Padilla López: "Me, no. You are!"
González Márquez: "No man, this is the way I work"
I couldn't make up this stuff if I tried.
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