All in the family, part 2: jefe Diego's son

The kidnapping of Diego Fernández de Cevallos, "El Jefe," had one effect on his family: His son David appears a beast of a man, who terrorized and abused his ex wife, and when his father was kidnapped, things have appeared to have gotten even worse: From today's story in La Jornada on the Fernández de Cevallos family and the ex wife of Diego, Ximena Marín-Foucher"

"This woman, bright-eyed but with a sad face, draws a sketch of a violant man, who caused his oldest son to pee in his pants only imagining the cries:

'He is a man who feels nothing. He is very cruel. He will kill dogs just like that. He is always armed, even in the house. Many times, when travelling roads, he would just kill dogs. He is sick' " 

To recall, Diego's ex wife, despite having custody of her children, had them violently taken away by her now ex husband, when he intruded in her apartment with scores of unidentified police. Hers is a horror tale on how far too many women are treated in Mexico, even - or maybe better yet, especially - in the higher layers of Mexican society. Yet even more so, it  also shows how law and order is at times completely in the hands of, and at the disposition of, the politically powerful: David and his father Diego Fernández de Cevallos have a power base in the state of Queretaro, where David apparently was able to push a local judge to come up with a new court order to grant him custody of his children, despite clear evidence that this man is extremely violent and should not have the custody of as much as a hamster.

The dark sides of his father have been long known, such as how he well as his low morals when it comes to engaging in institutional transgressions and blatant conflicts of of interest and, perhaps most clearly when his powerful law firm on many occasions successfully sued the Mexican State and won big money, all  all the same time as Diego Fernández de Cevallos remained a federal senator. 

The story of David, a vicious, mean father who is the son of a prominent politician, abuses of his wife, yet with ease uses his connection to make a judge cough up a verdict favorable to him sounds like a really bad movie plot. I've said it before: In these kind of families, the apple does not fall far from the tree.