Clouthier on Vázquez Mota: Quote

Manuel Clouthier said he would not seek a PAN senate seat from Sinaloa given differences with the national PAN leadership.

Then, he noted of Josefina Vázquez Mota that he knows "what she is made of" given that he was her colleague for two years in the Chamber of Deputies:

"she has an extraordinary ability to deceive people"

Ouch.

Mexico informal economy from 10 to 14 million under PAN

In 2000, an estimated 10 million people worked in Mexico's informal sector. In 2012, the number has risen to 14 million, according to the state statistics institute INEGI.

Almost one out three (29.2 percent) of the working population is now found in the informal sectors.

That means they get little if any medical coverage, and when they are too old to work, they will have little if any pension or social security income from the state.

These are damning figures of the 12 years in power of the PAN governments of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón.

Here's a graphic, from Milenio:

Milenio

Graco, who introduced AMLO to Cárdenas, governor candidate

Senator Graco Ramírez (PRD), the man who in 1988 introduced AMLO to Cárdenas (when the latter sought to recruit him to run as opposition candidate to PRI as governor of Tabasco), will himself finally be the candidate of the left to be governor of Morelos, it was announced yesterday

Ramírez stands a pretty good chance, both thanks to the relative strength of the PRD apparatus there, and due to his own popularity within Morelos. Suerte.

Update: Interview here