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. 

Calderón's cabinet shuffle: Good riddance to Juan Molinar Horcasitas

Good riddance to the utterly incompetent Juan Molinar Horcasitas, who will step down from his position as secretary of communication and transportation, in favor of Dionisio Pérez Jácome. Rumors have it that he will take on a significant party position within the PAN, yet he remains thoroughly unpopular with many panistas and highly questioned for his role as as head of the IMSS, as well as of the SCT, where corruption charges bloomed.
José Antonio Meade is also replacing Georgina Kessel as energy secretary.


Of note: Roberto Gil Zuarth, national deputy and PAN hotshot, gets a massive consolation price for declining for Gustavo Madero when the vote in the national council to become party president went in his disfavor: He will become the president's personal secretary, achieving vast influence over Calderón's agenda.

"The disastrous Juan": Salvador García Soto rips Juan Molinar Horcasitas apart

Juan Molinar Horcasitas is decidedly one of the most controversial members of Felipe Calderón's government; the current Secretary of Communications and Transportation has most recently been pummeled for his appointment of the seemingly utterly unqualfied Mony de Swaan as head of COFETEL, the Federal Commission of Telecommunications, and of the granting of media spectrum licenses far below market value to Televisa and Nextel. Yet as commentator Salvador García Soto in El Universal points out, there is much more:

"There are people who should never opt for public service. They neither have a vocation for service nor provide any benefit to society they should serve. One graphic case, judging by this results as a functionary and public servant, is Juan Molinar Horcasitas. His tenure in different public institutions over the past 10 years has left a trail of errors, problems, disasters and inefficiencies that have had high political, social and even economic costs."

Ouch. Yet he is absolutely right: Juan Molinar Horcasitas is a case of a man who was a great academic, yet who has left a trail of destruction in his wake wherever he has gone. The time for his retirement from government "service" is long overdue.