Authorities in Puebla arrested Alfredo Arango García, who was secretary of health in the terrible 2005-11 administration of child rapist-protector and misogynist Mario Marín Torres, on corruption charges.
Will Marín ever share the same fate? I keep on dreaming.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Javier Sicilia won't run for congress, despite offer
Javier Sicilia and Julián Le Baron, prominent social activists, won't run for the Mexican congress in 2012, despite being offered candidacies by the left's Movimiento Progresista.
Too bad - it would have allowed them a much bigger forum and wider audience for their anti-violence message.
Too bad - it would have allowed them a much bigger forum and wider audience for their anti-violence message.
Mexico's rank of "economic freedom": 54/179
The conservative Heritage Foundation is out with a new ranking of "economic freedom." Mexico scores 54 out of 179; the "top" Latin American country is, not unexpectedly, Chile, on 8th place - two places ahead of the United States.
No. 1 is Hong Kong.
Take the report for what it is worth, from a far-right outfit: Among the indicators are "Labor Freedom," which does not refer to the ease and freedom of forming and joining unions and their rights, but rather, from the business point of view, freedom from unions.
No. 1 is Hong Kong.
Take the report for what it is worth, from a far-right outfit: Among the indicators are "Labor Freedom," which does not refer to the ease and freedom of forming and joining unions and their rights, but rather, from the business point of view, freedom from unions.
PEMEX workers for Peña Nieto
Hardly a surprise given its forever-PRI ties, the union of PEMEX workers (STPRM) declared its "total backing" of PRI presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto. Will they engage, like they did in 2000, in another blatantly illegal funding of the PRI presidency?
Notably, in the audience was union leader Carlos Romero Deschamp and Ricardo Aldana Prieto, two of the main protagonists of "Pemexgate," where it was discovered in 20002 that the state-owned petroleum company siphoned off half a billion pesos to the PRI's 2000 campaign, and was fined a billion pesos for it.
Romero, for his part, lost his "political rights in a corruption conviction after the scandal that barred him from holding political office until last year.
Yet here he is again in the public limelight, with Peña Nieto, who despite claiming to represent a "New PRI" again and again l(literally) throws himself in the arms of its most retrograde parts.
Notably, in the audience was union leader Carlos Romero Deschamp and Ricardo Aldana Prieto, two of the main protagonists of "Pemexgate," where it was discovered in 20002 that the state-owned petroleum company siphoned off half a billion pesos to the PRI's 2000 campaign, and was fined a billion pesos for it.
Romero, for his part, lost his "political rights in a corruption conviction after the scandal that barred him from holding political office until last year.
Yet here he is again in the public limelight, with Peña Nieto, who despite claiming to represent a "New PRI" again and again l(literally) throws himself in the arms of its most retrograde parts.
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