Sunday, May 20, 2012

A thug bishop retires

What is one to make of this picture?
Foto
La Jornada
Onésimo Cepeda Silva, from his 5,000+-invitees farewell dinner. A former boxer-turned priest, hardcore PRI backer, and a declared opponent of Mexico's secular state, retires after 17 extremely controversial years as  Bishop of Ecatepe in Mexico State.

Good riddance.

Pilot fired for greeting AMLO, colleagues force his return

Quite an amazing little story: An Aeroméxico pilot was fired for greeting, over the aircraft intercom, presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), who was on the flight.

The story hardly stops there.

His colleagues, in a wonderful display of solidarity and in protest over the extreme reaction from the Aeroméxico management (privatized by PRI's Salinas in the late 1980s), refused to fly, which lead to the cancelling of several flights from Mexico City. After brief negotiations, the pilot, Miguel Pérez, was reinstated.


Source: Cesan a piloto que saludó a AMLO durante un vuelo. La Jornada, May 19, 2012.