Showing posts with label Queretaro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queretaro. Show all posts

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Spy scandal! Queretaro law maker's phone tapped

Not too often Queretaro is in the news (and when it is, superb coverage is of course found here), so I couldn't resist this one: Pablo Ademir Castellanos Ramírez, state representative in the local Queretaro legislature, denounced that people from the Government Secretariat had tapped his phone. Not only that, Francisco Hernández Velázquez, a state official, allegedly even told Castellanos to "be careful with what to say when I spoke by telephone, because they had recordings of the phone conversations."

Pretty chilling - a state functionary threatening a law maker, in addition to tapping his phone.
From what I can see, no response from PRI Governor José Calzada Rovirosa to these very serious allegations.

Friday, June 24, 2011

Queretaro: PAN Deputy Salvador Martínez Ortiz, a cold wind from the dark ages

Salvador Martínez Ortiz, a PAN deputy in the Queretaro state congress and head of its Family Commission, declared, basking in his moral superiority, that gays cannot be legislators - from any party, mind you - or hold any public office because they undermine family values and the "natural law of cohabitation."

To boot, Martínez Ortiz was interviewed during the international day of sexual diversity.

I don't think someone who believe a gay person is unfit for office is... well, fit for office. May his political career be a short lived one.