Phone taps of Mexican congressional leadership?

A story broke this morning that PRD leadership in chamber of deputies - which, by rotation, also hold the key leaderships post in the chamber (Guadalupe Acosta Naranjo, the Mesa Directiva, and Armando Ríos Píter, the Junta de Coordinación Política) - had their phones tapped.

Senator Carlos Navarrete asked for a search in the Senate as well

PRI, which also apparent was targeted, called it a "dirty war" from government of Calderón.

I wonder what will come out of this one.

More class warfare... this time José Ismael Loría Ancona

Another "Gentleman de las Lomas" incident of pure class hatred from the very wealthy in Mexico, this time the former state sports secretary in Quintana Roo, José Ismael Loría Ancona, who drove his car into a tree dead drunk, and with his sister proceeded to curse out the police, threaten them, and try to bribe them. Rather than try to translate the insults, here they are in pure undestilled  form:

To the police:

"Te crees muy chingón no, muy culito, pinche muerto de hambre cabrón"
“Tu seguridad pendeja me pararon, yo les dije tranquilos déjenme ir, les doy una lana, lo que quieran”
"..no sabes con quién trato."..
"si me meten en el bote no hay pedo, mañana salgo, pinche gente no tienen ni la secundaria"

And from his sister, to the police with love:

 "Ahora sí se los carga su puta madre cabrones!"

Wow.

Gay rights: Supreme Court tells Jalisco and BC off

The ultra-reactionary neo-falangist governments of Baja California and Jalisco, still stuck in a pre-enlightenment time warp, are not happy harrassing women and gays in their own states: They even took the gay unions and adoptions in Mexico City to the Supreme Court, so offended were they over this rampant threat to their families.

Now the Supreme Court essentially ruled, what happens in Mexico City is absolutely none of their concern, and it is certainly not "unconstitutional." 'Nuff said? Wouldn't count on it.

An apt metaphor for the PRI

A story from PRI presidential candidate Enrique Peña's campaign stop in Queretaro:
(where the front runner appeared remarkably out of sync; while his party insisted that it broke with teacher union despot Elba Esther Gordillo, he maintained that it was her party PANAL that did so).

Regardless. From the campaign event:

... close to 20 supporters of the candidate denounced that they had been robbed. ..... before entering the auditorium Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez, security personnel  prevented them from entering with bulky backpacks or bags in which the victims kept wallets, clothes, keys and cell phones. But after the event, they approached the guards to have their belongings returned, but were told that there were no objects left to return.

How suitable.