Narco Soliz Soliz : Last year, a candidate for Green Party federal deputy!

This is quite amazing: Last year, Saúl Solís Solís / Saúl Soliz Soliz, who was just arrested as an important figure within the Caballeros Templarios drug trafficking organization, was a candidate to be... a federal deputy!

While Solís Solís lost the vote, he was the candidate of the PVEM Green party, and here is his campaign video.

The new PRI: Efrén Leyva Acevedo in Guerrero

Efrén Leyva Acevedo is head of PRI in the state of Guerrero. It was just revealed how he falsely used the names of 20-odd mayors, deputies and senators - including the name of one who died in 2010 - by pretending they had "signed" and assented to press release where Leyva Acevedo accused the state government of Ángel Aguirre Rivero of being behind the recent murder of a PRI federal deputy.

Lying, faking signatures - so much for the "new" PRI.

The other PRI contender: Manlio Fabio Beltrones

Manlio Fabio Beltrones have not given up on his presidential ambitions, and Milenio has a good article on his circle of allies and advisers here.

Baja California, the miliary, and drunk public servants

This short new piece from La Jornada is simply worth translating in its entirety. Enjoy:

Mexicali, BC. Gen. Alfonso Duarte Mujica, commander of the Second Military Region, asked Governor José Guadalupe Osuna Millán Cardona that Secretary of Government Cuauhtémoc Benavides not be present at any military ceremony, and because of this he was absent from the ceremony to honor the Niños Héroes on September 13. Cardona Benavides said he arrived late and therefore did not step up to the podium. When the formal ceremony ended he went off without saying goodbye.