Jorge Emilio González Martínez, the "Green kid" who has been president of the Mexican Green Party, Partido Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM), was abruptly removed as president and made into an "honorary councilor" following a vote at the party's national assembly.
This is purely theatrics: The only other president of the Green party was González' father Jorge González Torres (1991-2001), and the party remains a pure financial family enterprise without any life or direction of its own. It is moreover the only right-wing "green" party in the world that even got kicked out of the "Green international."
Most probably not by coincident, the abrupt removal at the PVEM top follows an amazing investigation in the Mexican daily El Universal that details how the entire party leadership consists of random friends - from school, party friends, even his house cleaner - of the niño verde, who many may remember from the 2004 video scandal where he was on hidden camera offered a hefty bribe to allow some beach development to take place in an endangered area.
