Sunday, February 12, 2012

How can this be legal? Guanajuato and the pope

According to the political gossip column in Milenio: 
Guanajuato's government paid 2 000 800 pesos for each of the nearly 220 rooms reserved so that officials and friends of Governor Juan Manuel Oliva can sleep in luxurious hotels located on avenida López Mateos, and from there observe the route that Pope Benedict XVI will carry out in the city of  León March.

Bátiz would head PGR, Mondragón SSP

Two more "cabinet announcements" for AMLO should he win the presidency:
- Bernardo Bátiz, his ex-attorney general in Mexico City, would head the national PGR to be Attorney General of Mexico (the position Marisela Morales now holds)
- Manuel Mondragón, current head of police in Mexico City, would head the federal SSP,  Secretariat of Public Security (the position Genaro García Luna now holds)

Also, notably, AMLO in Nuevo León said some businessmen apologized for their role in the 2006 "dirty campaign" where business sectors sponsored illegal campaign ads against him.

Alejandro Solalinde, remarkable priest

If there's a devil, he might very well live on Mexico's southern border, which for so many Central American immigrants is a hellish nightmare of kidnappings, torture, rape, and murder.

One man who fights the cause of immigrants and defends human rights in general: The remarkable Alejandro Solalinde Guerra.

Here's a fun interview. Excerpts:

Q: Who do you fear more: the drug dealers or politicians?
- The two together, because sometimes there is no difference between them.

...Well, the Pope is only a servant of servants.
Q: By the way, why is he coming?
- It is very curious that he is going exactly to a PAN stronghold. But I will not assume anything.