Enrique Peña Nieto: Hypocrisy 101

From at least January 2010, and up until the present: Peña Nieto attacks "lamentable and perverse" alliances between the PRD and PAN, due to the ignoring of their basic ideological differences: How can they ignore how ideology matters!

Yesterday: Peña Nieto now wants less ideology and more pragmatism: Referring to countries such as Brazil and Chile,

"They have had an ability to see the future with pragmatism, while Latin American countries have opted for or have wanted to look backwards or to find in ideologies the solutions to their problems."

If the PRD-PAN alliance in Mexico state, which Peña Nieto has done all in his power to block, are not the foremost example of putting electoral pragmatism to win a key goal- blocking a PRI win in the state - ahead of their own ideological differences - which obviously exist - then what is? 

Manlio Fabio Beltrones still in ring for the PRI 2012 nomination

Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera is one of PRI's most cunning cadres, and has far from given up his own presidential ambitions. The PRI Senator, denying that he is self-promoting his candidacy for the presidency, recently launched a video on youtube that is clearly promoting... well, his presidential candidacy. Beltrones denies it. You be the judge.

De-homofy thyself! Jalisco does it again: State sponsors "gay conversion" events

Raúl Vargas, local deputy for the PRD in Jalisco, is denouncing the state administration and secretary of state Fernando Guzmán Pérez Peláez for embezzlement. Why? Because the secretariat he heads is sponsoring the event Camino a la Castidad - yes indeed, the "Path Toward Chastity," which has as "motivational speakers" characters such as Paul Check of "Courage International" and Richard Cohen, an "ex-gay" and guru of "conversion therapy," which purports to convert gays through prayer and meditation. 


By sponsoring the event, the state government secretariat is not only embezzling tax payers' money, who given Jalisco's many social problems would most likely rather have their money spent on police, schools, and hospitals rather than this idiocy; it is also fomenting discrimination of gays and, of course, utterly violating the separation between church and state. Richard Cohen is a psychotic charlatan who is, among others, linked to the 2009 Anti-Homosexuality Bill of Uganda, or "Kill Gays bill" as it was quickly known. Now, the state government of Emilio González Márquez, is giving these hate mongers an additional platform - and  yet again making the state the laughingstock of Mexico. 


Poor Mexican gays, so far from god, and so close to Jalisco.

PAN nervous about losing Guanajuato

Prominent panistas are seeking to assure that there is no danger of a split in the PAN guanajuatense, following the firing of Gerardo Mosqueda Martínez from the state administration of Juan Manuel Oliva Ramírez. National party President César Nava, who is holding a very low profile these days and will step down in a few weeks as PAN leader, broke his recent silence by declaring simply that "In Guanajuato the heard of  horses is large, how great, this is not a problem at all." Yet it certainly is: Mosqueda Martínez is not even a PAN member, represents the most reactionary wing of the PAN, and is loathed by prominent panistas that include the head of the state party branch, who already declared he would not vote for him.

Even former President Vicente Fox, who hails from Guanajuato and governed the state 1995-199, at the opening of a local PAN headquarter in León called for unity, "because we cannot let go of the governorship nor of the  Presidency." The growing Guanajuato schism between PAN and the catholic extremists of El Yunque may tear the party apart, and not only in this state.