Great profile of Governor Emilio González Márquez of Jalisco

A highly recommended read: Ignacio Alvarado Álvarez of El Universal profiles the ultra-conservative, ultra-polarizing, ultra-incompetent, ultra-drunk Governor of Jalisco, Emilio González Márquez, and  his political trajectory.

The title of the article: "The Tracing of an Ultra-Conservative Government."

What does it take to get fired from the Chamber of Deputies? Jorge Kahwagi Macari

La Jornada reports on the very poor attendance rate of particularly PRI, PAN, and PANAL deputies in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies. None beats Jorge Kahwagi Macari: The boxer-media celebrity-cum politician, who is also the nominal head of Elba Esther Gordillo's Partido Nueva Alianza (PANAL), a party based on her iron-fisted control of the SNTE teachers union, in the current congressional period has attended 1 - one - out of 26 session! At the single session he did attend, he merely registered in the electronic registry and then took off. All the while, Kahwagi has continued to draw his legislator's salary and the many perks that come with being a national deputy. To add, in the previous session, from February to March, he also only showed up to register electronically, and then skipped the 30(!) other sessions held.

With such behavior, is it any wonder that Mexico's national legislators are held in low esteem?