The gloves are off

From Alonso Lujambio, sec. of education, responding to PRI leader Humberto Moreira, and not exactly holding back here:

"I'm tired of listening to the PRI say they know how to govern. They blew up the economy of family households with the 'Error of December' in 1994, they blew up the economy of family households when they allowed a delirious runaway inflation in the 1980s; they cried, Jose Lopez Portillo cried in Congress because he didn't know how to rule... what better proof do we have that they do not know how to govern the country? In 1976 [PRI]  again blew up the family economy with the devaluation, and in 1968 they killed students. Who is that knows how to govern?

On legalization of drugs: Quotes of the day from Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize in literature and a public intellectual within and far beyond his native Peru (and far more sensical than his offspring, Álvaro, more interested in provoking than serious argumentation), comes of strongly in favor of the legalization of drugs

"There is no other way. It is difficult and risky, but I think that repression leads to what we are seeing: an increase in production.

And on the war on drugs:
"I thank that the path we are currently on, it is going to lead to that all of Latin America will be what Mexico is today."

An act of apparent political vengeance: PAN loses party registry in Guerrero

In the state of Guerrero, where PAN in last year's gubernatorial election the end declined for winning PRD candidate Ángel Aguirre Rivero, the state's electoral institute, Instituto Electoral del Estado de Guerrero (IEEG), has canceled PAN's party registry in the state as well as the payment of public funds to the party.

The reason? According to IEEG, is is simply because the PAN, quite likely due to declining for the PRD, only achieved 2.5 percent of the vote in the state.

PAN, however, accuse the IEEG of "political vengeance" given PAN's support of the PRD. It is not hard to see the point: While the 2.5-percent rule is certainly valid, PAN does, however, remain a national party, and the minimum-support stipulation arguably then does not apply.