The PRD's state branch in Tabasco is in trouble: Criminal proceedings have been launched against party leader Javier May Rodríguez for the alleged fraud of 35 million pesos, stemming from his tenure as mayor of Comalcalco 2007-2009. Tabasco is the home state of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the Tabascan branch is one of the few AMLO retains complete control over. May Rodríguez is one of AMLO's closest collaborators there.
The Tabasco PRD calls the investigation "political revenge," and he is defended by allies such as Arturo Núñez, senator from Tabasco (who wants to become the state next governor), yet May Rodríguez has been a very controversial party leader for his iron-fisted control of the branch - as was, to be sure, the leadership of José Ramiro López Obrador, AMLO's brother, who headed the party before him.
José Ramiro, to recall, last year faced charges of embezzlement.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
The Guerrero Green Party water sports scandal
More on this outrageous scandal in Guerrero:
Federal secretary of health, José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, lamented that a Fernando Reina Iglesias, president of the Environment Commission in the Acapulco city council and a member of the Green Party to boot, had used a state helicopter for personal recreation. How about having him arrested?
The helicopter was purchased in order to help marginalized indigenous communities gain access to health facilities. Now, it turns while Reina Iglesias was instead repeatedly using the helicopter training to break the Guinness speed record on water skiing behind a helicopter, in the state of Guerrero, 126 poor women died in remote communities for lack of sufficient medical attention during their pregnancy.
Federal secretary of health, José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, lamented that a Fernando Reina Iglesias, president of the Environment Commission in the Acapulco city council and a member of the Green Party to boot, had used a state helicopter for personal recreation. How about having him arrested?
The helicopter was purchased in order to help marginalized indigenous communities gain access to health facilities. Now, it turns while Reina Iglesias was instead repeatedly using the helicopter training to break the Guinness speed record on water skiing behind a helicopter, in the state of Guerrero, 126 poor women died in remote communities for lack of sufficient medical attention during their pregnancy.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Sixty million pesos yours for grabs - for whistleblowing
Salvador Vega Casillas, secretary of the federal Función Pública, which monitors federal spending, said the organ would set aside 60 million pesos for those who denounce public corruption.
While it's unclear how much will be handed out for every case of successful whistle blowing, Mexico is here also abiding by international agreements against corruption that prescribes such measures.
Sixty million pesos - they're yours to grab!
While it's unclear how much will be handed out for every case of successful whistle blowing, Mexico is here also abiding by international agreements against corruption that prescribes such measures.
Sixty million pesos - they're yours to grab!
Want to live in the historic downtown of Mexico City?
The association of real estate professionals (AMPI) let it be known that after surveying the historic downtown district of Mexico City, 380 properties are ready to be rented out or sold - rent from 2,000 to 30,000 pesos; for buyers, 350,000 to 10 million pesos so something for everyone, in other words.
Wandering through the most historic areas of Mexico City, I've always daydreamed of purchasing one of the surprisingly many vacant apartments there - much of them, to be sure, uninhabited as a cause of the '85 earthquake.
Hurry, before Carlos Slim buys them all.
From El Universal
Wandering through the most historic areas of Mexico City, I've always daydreamed of purchasing one of the surprisingly many vacant apartments there - much of them, to be sure, uninhabited as a cause of the '85 earthquake.
Hurry, before Carlos Slim buys them all.
From El Universal
Michoacán politics: Human Rights Commissions goes youtubing
Todos están youtubeando:
The human rights commission in the state of Michoacán uploaded a youtube video entitled "Presumed guilty means innocent until the opposite is proven," in clear allusion to the super documentary of the same name, yet also adding a local element: The michoacanazo, where scores of state functionaries were arrested on anonymous accusations and released without evidence. Several of these make appearances as "victims of the
michoacanazo," behind faked prison bars.
The video Presunto Culpable es inocente hasta que se demuestre lo contrario" can be seen here.
The human rights commission in the state of Michoacán uploaded a youtube video entitled "Presumed guilty means innocent until the opposite is proven," in clear allusion to the super documentary of the same name, yet also adding a local element: The michoacanazo, where scores of state functionaries were arrested on anonymous accusations and released without evidence. Several of these make appearances as "victims of the
michoacanazo," behind faked prison bars.
The video Presunto Culpable es inocente hasta que se demuestre lo contrario" can be seen here.
Jésus Ortega, PRD national president, on a 2012 PRD-PAN common candidate
National president of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD), Jesús Ortega, from an interview in today's Milenio on the suggestion that PRD and PAN might launch a common presidential candidate in 2012:
"it is an outrage, a fabrication, and an unheard of lie"
("una barbaridad, un invento y una mentira insólita”)
Does it get clearer than this?
Yet AMLO knows better.
"it is an outrage, a fabrication, and an unheard of lie"
("una barbaridad, un invento y una mentira insólita”)
Does it get clearer than this?
Yet AMLO knows better.
Ernesto Cordero
Since a couple of months back, my hunch has been that Ernesto Cordero will be PAN's eventual presidential candidate. Stories such as this only add my accumulated circumstantial evidence:
"During his visit... Cordero handed out clothes, toys and trucks seized and forfeited by the Sistema de Administración y Enajenación (SAE) from organized crime, to the 18 poorest municipalities in the country, including Coicoyan de las Flores, San Agustín Loxicha, San Andrés Paxtlán and Santa Lucia Miahuatlán. He said the initiative came from the wife of President Calderon, Margarita Zavala, and the indigenous federal deputy Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza."
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