It was am embarrassing charade. Although chairs had been set up for more than 10,000 spectators, less than half showed up, with the result that event organizers were scrambling to remove the empty white plastic chairs as outgoing Puebla Governor Mario Marín began his farewell speech. As more and more damning revelations has surfaced, Marín's supporters have steadily dissipated - though not all.
Mario Marín, to recall just a few fun facts, is a protector of pedophiles, someone who has abused his political position for sexual favors, and is a possible ring leader in a human trafficking/pedophile ring. Purely political reasons has prevented him from being thrown in jail; this man is a criminal of the worst kind. As Katia D' Artigues noted in her column today, only a massive spending of close to 200 million pesos on the local media has so far bought their silence and stopped them from pursuing these and many other scandals.
Yet guess who came to offer their respects? Well, not those of the PRI's old guard that one might expect - Raúl Salinas, Roberto Madrazo, even Elba Esther Gordillo, who had all been invited but chose not to attend - but national party leader Beatriz Paredes and Governor Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico State - the faces of the so-called "new" PRI, which ostensibly does not share the authoritarian and vertical features of the old PRI.
Politics is about swallowing camels, yes, and like the production of sausage, it is at times better not to see how it is being done, yet by showing up at an event to honor a criminal like Marin, Paredes and Peña Nieto just dragged themselves a bit closer to the sewer from which scum like Marín originated, taking the "new" PRI with them in the process.
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