If there's a devil, he might very well live on Mexico's southern border, which for so many Central American immigrants is a hellish nightmare of kidnappings, torture, rape, and murder.
One man who fights the cause of immigrants and defends human rights in general: The remarkable Alejandro Solalinde Guerra.
Here's a fun interview. Excerpts:
Q: Who do you fear more: the drug dealers or politicians?
- The two together, because sometimes there is no difference between them.
...Well, the Pope is only a servant of servants.
Q: By the way, why is he coming?
- It is very curious that he is going exactly to a PAN stronghold. But I will not assume anything.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Clouthier on Vázquez Mota: Quote
Manuel Clouthier said he would not seek a PAN senate seat from Sinaloa given differences with the national PAN leadership.
Then, he noted of Josefina Vázquez Mota that he knows "what she is made of" given that he was her colleague for two years in the Chamber of Deputies:
Ouch.
Then, he noted of Josefina Vázquez Mota that he knows "what she is made of" given that he was her colleague for two years in the Chamber of Deputies:
"she has an extraordinary ability to deceive people"
Ouch.
Mexico informal economy from 10 to 14 million under PAN
In 2000, an estimated 10 million people worked in Mexico's informal sector. In 2012, the number has risen to 14 million, according to the state statistics institute INEGI.
Almost one out three (29.2 percent) of the working population is now found in the informal sectors.
That means they get little if any medical coverage, and when they are too old to work, they will have little if any pension or social security income from the state.
These are damning figures of the 12 years in power of the PAN governments of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón.
Here's a graphic, from Milenio:
Almost one out three (29.2 percent) of the working population is now found in the informal sectors.
That means they get little if any medical coverage, and when they are too old to work, they will have little if any pension or social security income from the state.
These are damning figures of the 12 years in power of the PAN governments of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón.
Here's a graphic, from Milenio:
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Graco, who introduced AMLO to Cárdenas, governor candidate
Senator Graco Ramírez (PRD), the man who in 1988 introduced AMLO to Cárdenas (when the latter sought to recruit him to run as opposition candidate to PRI as governor of Tabasco), will himself finally be the candidate of the left to be governor of Morelos, it was announced yesterday
Ramírez stands a pretty good chance, both thanks to the relative strength of the PRD apparatus there, and due to his own popularity within Morelos. Suerte.
Update: Interview here
Ramírez stands a pretty good chance, both thanks to the relative strength of the PRD apparatus there, and due to his own popularity within Morelos. Suerte.
Update: Interview here
Friday, February 10, 2012
Profiles of Josefina Vázquez Mota, The Guardian
A Josefina Vázquez Mota profile in The Guardian (by Luis Hernández Navarro, opinion editor of La Jornada) is well worth a read. It draws attention to traits pretty much ignored the past days, such a quite worrisome one:
Her religious zeal.
Also, from the very sharp Shannon O'Neil, a profile in Foreign Affairs.My only quibble is that while she notes the PAN candidate has "substantial political experience," she could also have dug a bit more to note that she has, either in government or as a federal deputy, achieved very, very little.
Indeed, except from a public spat with Elba Esther Gordillo, I can't hardly even remember her grabbing the limelight for anything substantial the past six years.
Her religious zeal.
Also, from the very sharp Shannon O'Neil, a profile in Foreign Affairs.My only quibble is that while she notes the PAN candidate has "substantial political experience," she could also have dug a bit more to note that she has, either in government or as a federal deputy, achieved very, very little.
Indeed, except from a public spat with Elba Esther Gordillo, I can't hardly even remember her grabbing the limelight for anything substantial the past six years.
Chiapas: Senator Orantes left's governor candidate
It's a classic story: María Elena Orantes López is a senator, and was until recently a prominent member of the PRI - until that party denied her the nomination to be its gubernatorial candidate in Chiapas.
The left stepped in, negotiated, and Manuel Camacho Solís, coordinator of the PRD-PT-MC-MORENA electoral alliance, just announced her candidacy for the left coalition to be 2012-18 governor of Chiapas..
The mayor of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Yassir Vázquez (PRD) is not happy. He was also the delfín of current governor Juan Sabines (also an ex-PRI member recruited by the left when, you got it, he, too, was denied its nomination in 2006), and need to be awarded some kind of consolation price.
Given that the PRI is also in turmoil in Chiapas for much of the same reasons, Orantes stands a good chance of winning, and was also strongly backed by AMLO, who noted her alleged progressive record as Senator.
We'll see.
The left stepped in, negotiated, and Manuel Camacho Solís, coordinator of the PRD-PT-MC-MORENA electoral alliance, just announced her candidacy for the left coalition to be 2012-18 governor of Chiapas..
The mayor of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Yassir Vázquez (PRD) is not happy. He was also the delfín of current governor Juan Sabines (also an ex-PRI member recruited by the left when, you got it, he, too, was denied its nomination in 2006), and need to be awarded some kind of consolation price.
Given that the PRI is also in turmoil in Chiapas for much of the same reasons, Orantes stands a good chance of winning, and was also strongly backed by AMLO, who noted her alleged progressive record as Senator.
We'll see.
Three million more poor in three years
What a damning indictment of PAN and Calderón's social and economic policies: According to CONEVAL, there are now 3.2 million poor in Mexico when compared with 2008. Mexico's indigenous are particularly hard hit:
Josefina Vázquez Mota is running, much like Calderón in 2006, on a campaign of continuity with PAN's policies. For the poor of Mexico, that is a terrible choice.
Of the indigenous population, 40.5% have nutritional deficiencies, exacerbated by their condition of marginality and exclusion.See CONEVAL's full report here.
Josefina Vázquez Mota is running, much like Calderón in 2006, on a campaign of continuity with PAN's policies. For the poor of Mexico, that is a terrible choice.
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