Showing posts with label Jorge Hank Rhon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jorge Hank Rhon. Show all posts
Friday, June 24, 2011
Calderón didn't know of the operation against Jorge Hank Rhon?
Felipe Calderón told Javier Sicilia he didn't know of the operation against Jorge Hank Rhon, where the army apprehended the former Tijuana mayor on weapons charges.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Jorge Hank Rhon, gobernador?
It's hard to imagine a worse nightmare scenario for his opponents, of which there are many: But Jorge Hank Rhon suggested he may run for governor of Baja California State "if the party obliges me."
The PRI avoided any substantial comment; given its president Humberto Moreira's decision to keep a very low profile these days, it was left to his secretary general to note that it was "not an opportune moment" for the party to discuss any Hank Rhon candidacy now. Alternatively, PRI could have answered: 'There is no way in hell we will let an obvious criminal linked by the United States to drugtrafficking, to become our gubernatorial candidate.' But no.
The PRI avoided any substantial comment; given its president Humberto Moreira's decision to keep a very low profile these days, it was left to his secretary general to note that it was "not an opportune moment" for the party to discuss any Hank Rhon candidacy now. Alternatively, PRI could have answered: 'There is no way in hell we will let an obvious criminal linked by the United States to drugtrafficking, to become our gubernatorial candidate.' But no.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Why the raid against Jorge Hank Rhon?
Jorge Zepeda Patterson, a usually well-informed and reasoned columnist (and academic), proposes two hypotheses why the army launched the raid against Jorge Hank Rhon. Both assumes that the army acted on its own, yet one is considerably more sinister than the other.
1) The army was convinced of Hank's guilt, and launched the operation to catch a bad guy, with the intent also to shore up its increasinly tattered image (particularly compared to La Marina).
2) The army intentionally set out to bungle the operation, a la the Michoacanazo, in order to discredit the PGR, PAN, and President Calderón.
Definitely among the more interesting speculations around the botched operation - though exactly that, speculations.
1) The army was convinced of Hank's guilt, and launched the operation to catch a bad guy, with the intent also to shore up its increasinly tattered image (particularly compared to La Marina).
2) The army intentionally set out to bungle the operation, a la the Michoacanazo, in order to discredit the PGR, PAN, and President Calderón.
Definitely among the more interesting speculations around the botched operation - though exactly that, speculations.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
A new low: Bishop of Mexicali backs his "friend" Jorge Hank Rhon
It almost defies belief (no pun intended):
The Bishop of Mexicali, José Isidro Guerrero Macías, in a letter to the highly unchrist-like character Jorge Hank Rhon (who has 19 children and refers to women as "animals,") expressed his support for what he calls his "friend," and the "lamentable situation that you and your family is living through."
And, to be sure, he let Hank knows he is praying for him.
What an extraordinary job the Mexican high clergy does to undermine what little remains of its credibility.
The Bishop of Mexicali, José Isidro Guerrero Macías, in a letter to the highly unchrist-like character Jorge Hank Rhon (who has 19 children and refers to women as "animals,") expressed his support for what he calls his "friend," and the "lamentable situation that you and your family is living through."
And, to be sure, he let Hank knows he is praying for him.
What an extraordinary job the Mexican high clergy does to undermine what little remains of its credibility.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Wikileaks on Jorge Hank Rhon, cable 09TIJUANA709
From La Jornada, which is keeping an excellent tab on Wikileaks revelations big and small related to Mexico:
"It is widely believed that Hank was a corrupt mayor and is still involved with drug trafficking."
- U.S. diplomatic cable on Jorge Hank Rhon
"It is widely believed that Hank was a corrupt mayor and is still involved with drug trafficking."
- U.S. diplomatic cable on Jorge Hank Rhon
88 guns of Jorge Hank Rhon: Like arresting Al Capone for tax evasion
Forty long-barrel rifles, 48 guns, 70 ammo clips, 9,298 bullets, and a tear gas grenade, all stored in his house. That is the official reason former Tijuana mayor Jorge Hank Rhon, and ten others, was apprehended by the Mexican army.
Even Shakira was a casualty, it appears; she was slated to give a private concert to the "businessman" Jorge Hank Rhon, whose corruption and shady dealings are likely only surpassed by that of his father, Carlos Hank González, former Mexico State governor and a key member of the Grupo Atlacomulco that for decades have dominated politics in Mexico State.
The arrest of Hank Rhon certainly made an impact on the current campaign to become the next governor of Mexico State; campaign staff of Eruviel Ávila Villegas, the PRI's candidate, was quick to distance himself from Hank. The most vacuous comment I've seen so far came from current Edomex governor Enrique Peña Nieto: "I have no more facts to give any different view than the invariable position of the party."
So was it politically motivated, or simply triggered by what appears to be a criminal offense? Clearly these are not mutually exclusive. As an El Universal editorial notes, "It is difficult to find anyone with a darker past." The obvious parallel to his arrest, ostensibly for illegal weapons, is nailing Al Capone for tax evasion. Regardless: As a strike against the perennial impunit plaguing Mexico, the arrest of Jorge Hank Rhon is truly wonderful news.
Even Shakira was a casualty, it appears; she was slated to give a private concert to the "businessman" Jorge Hank Rhon, whose corruption and shady dealings are likely only surpassed by that of his father, Carlos Hank González, former Mexico State governor and a key member of the Grupo Atlacomulco that for decades have dominated politics in Mexico State.
The arrest of Hank Rhon certainly made an impact on the current campaign to become the next governor of Mexico State; campaign staff of Eruviel Ávila Villegas, the PRI's candidate, was quick to distance himself from Hank. The most vacuous comment I've seen so far came from current Edomex governor Enrique Peña Nieto: "I have no more facts to give any different view than the invariable position of the party."
So was it politically motivated, or simply triggered by what appears to be a criminal offense? Clearly these are not mutually exclusive. As an El Universal editorial notes, "It is difficult to find anyone with a darker past." The obvious parallel to his arrest, ostensibly for illegal weapons, is nailing Al Capone for tax evasion. Regardless: As a strike against the perennial impunit plaguing Mexico, the arrest of Jorge Hank Rhon is truly wonderful news.
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