Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The amazingly incompetent Vázquez Mota campaign

The incompetence of PAN candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota does not cease to amaze me.
Case in point:  A few weeks ago, she appointed the respected political scientist but highly discredited public servant Juan Molinar Horcasitas to her presidential campaign.

Now, she openly disavows him, and pathetically demands that he remain ajeno or roughly "outside" of her campaign, in order to clarify his role in the infamous Hermosillo, Sonora  fire that killed 49 infants, and so as not to prevent her from from "getting closer" to the parents of the dead children. She also has the guts to demand that he face justice.

Did she simply forget about this when she appointed him?

No wonder she is plummeting in the polls: This is simply the worst PAN candidate for the presidency in more than a generation.


Source:
Pide JVM a Molinar enfrentar a la justicia. El Universal, June 5, 2012. 

Ominami, from Chile, an AMLO adviser?

Apologies for merely re-transmitting a rumor, albeit from the well-informed Bajo Reserva: According to sources in AMLO's campaign team, one foreign adviser to AMLO's 2012 presidential campaign is none other than Marco Enríquez-Ominami, the 38-young Chilean leftwing politician most known for his 2009 presidential run in Chile (he came third with 20 percent or so), but later an important promoter of the student protest movement in Chile.

I am very curious on what role he plays in Mexico, whether as a liaison with the #soy132, as an assessor of the movement, as an actual organizer of the protests, or otherwise, and I find the international aspect quite noteworthy.

Source:
Bajo Reserva. El Universal, June 5, 2012.