As Gancho has noted, Humberto Moreira has been quite an act recently; since taking over as head of the PRI, he has seemed eager to make his mark as new party president, though in the process the rambunctious former governor of Coahuila has sounded a bit more than a cocky highschooler on the student board rather than the head of Mexico's largest party.
Yet given his verbosity, you might think he had a word or two to say of the recent disturbing events in Guerrero, where the PRD's representative to the state electoral council was beaten into a bloody pulp, and whose chances of survival are still 50-50.
- A call to calm tempers?
- A call to reject any violence?
- An apology?
No. Rather, Moreira has kept his usually big mouth pretty much shut. Yet his fellow party members have not, when they rather should have.
* PRI Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones has called on the PRD to "not exploit the issue politically."
* PRI Senator and Secretary general Jesús Murillo Karam has attacked "opportunistic declarations."
And the kicker: The "Tiempos Mejores para Guerrero" coalition of Manuel Añorve Baños in Guerrero, which includes the PRI, the Green Party (PVEM) and the teacher party PANAL, suggests that the aggression against the PRD member might have been a set-up orchestrated by the PRD.
This from the "New PRI." After barely a week as party president, could the PRI under Moreira possibly sink any lower?
Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Yet another IFE resolution revoked by TEPJF, then another
Mexico's highest electoral court, TEPJF, revoked an earlier resolution by the country's electoral institute (IFE) where the Partido del Trabajo (PT) was fined a million pesos for using the following words in a TV ad, while images of Enrique Peña, Carlos Salinas, Felipe Calderón and Elba Esther Gordillo were displayed: "The mafia of power that took over Mexico, responsible for the current national tragedy."
While IFE had found the ad "denigrated" the said public figures, TEPFJ wisely rejected this as being the party's opinion, and thus not denigrating. As has often been noted here: This is hardly the first time TEPJF have rejected IFE resolutions castigating non-PRI parties.
Yet of note: The TEPJF also ordered IFE to relaunch the investigation of a complaint by PAN against Andrés Manuel López Obrador, where the party accused him of jumping the gun in terms of electioneering before the allowed time frame, after appearing in several TV and radio ads.
While IFE had found the ad "denigrated" the said public figures, TEPFJ wisely rejected this as being the party's opinion, and thus not denigrating. As has often been noted here: This is hardly the first time TEPJF have rejected IFE resolutions castigating non-PRI parties.
Yet of note: The TEPJF also ordered IFE to relaunch the investigation of a complaint by PAN against Andrés Manuel López Obrador, where the party accused him of jumping the gun in terms of electioneering before the allowed time frame, after appearing in several TV and radio ads.
The tragicomedy of the PT and Convergencia's conception of democracy
As is known by now, the PRD is likely to arrange an open poll in Mexico State to decide whether the party should go in alliance with the PAN, and who should be its candidate. Given that likely candidate Encinas has endorsed it, all should be fine. Let democracy work. Right?
Well: Then there's the case of the pejista ultra-faked-loyalty to AMLO, Partido del Trabajo and Convergencia, who display a quite particular understanding of democracy. Their respective leaders, Alberto Anaya and Luis Walton, said while the consultation has not yet been set in stone, they would willingly participate in it, but they would not endorse it should the outcome be a "Yes" to a PAN alliance...
Read: "Yes, we'll participate, but only accept the result if we win."
That said, this absurd statement is unfortunately very much in tune with Andrés Manuel López Obrador's own conception of democracy, which little resembles how the most of the world conceives of it.
Well: Then there's the case of the pejista ultra-faked-loyalty to AMLO, Partido del Trabajo and Convergencia, who display a quite particular understanding of democracy. Their respective leaders, Alberto Anaya and Luis Walton, said while the consultation has not yet been set in stone, they would willingly participate in it, but they would not endorse it should the outcome be a "Yes" to a PAN alliance...
Read: "Yes, we'll participate, but only accept the result if we win."
That said, this absurd statement is unfortunately very much in tune with Andrés Manuel López Obrador's own conception of democracy, which little resembles how the most of the world conceives of it.
True face of AMLO's 'left' allies: Convergencia backs PRI in Baja California Sur.
Yet another example of the incessant opportunism of Convergencia, a party that like Partido del Trabajo has ever since 2006 posited itself as "ultra loyal" to AMLO and as a "real" left radical party.
Convergencia was always and will likely always remain, just like the PT, an amazingly opportunist party that will turn its cape to whatever electoral wind it can use to reap any material benefits and advantages for itself. Claim: It has absolutely no ideological or programmatic agenda, and it is not a left-wing party.
Case in point: Baja California Sur, where the Convergencia candidate for governor, Martín Inzunza, decided not to run as a candidate. While AMLO defenders would be quick to point out that AMLO has told his supporters not to vote at all in BCS, given his open opposition to the PRD candidate, Inzunza, however, declined in favor of the nominal arch enemy, the PRI. Don't expect a comment from AMLO on this hypocrisy any time soon.
Convergencia was always and will likely always remain, just like the PT, an amazingly opportunist party that will turn its cape to whatever electoral wind it can use to reap any material benefits and advantages for itself. Claim: It has absolutely no ideological or programmatic agenda, and it is not a left-wing party.
Case in point: Baja California Sur, where the Convergencia candidate for governor, Martín Inzunza, decided not to run as a candidate. While AMLO defenders would be quick to point out that AMLO has told his supporters not to vote at all in BCS, given his open opposition to the PRD candidate, Inzunza, however, declined in favor of the nominal arch enemy, the PRI. Don't expect a comment from AMLO on this hypocrisy any time soon.
Carlos Marín calls on Moreira to condemn attack on PRD
Carlos Marín, senior columnist of Milenio, calls upon PRI president Humberto Moreira to condemn the vicious attack that left PRD's representative to the state electoral institute in Guerrero in a coma.
Here's a chance to try to demonstrate that the "New PRI" is a lot different than the "old PRI."
Will Moreira use it?
Here's a chance to try to demonstrate that the "New PRI" is a lot different than the "old PRI."
Will Moreira use it?
PRI thugs beat PRD legal representative into a coma in Guerrero
It's getting worse by the day, two weeks ahead of the gubernatorial elections in Guerrero:
Twenty PRI thugs attacked Guillermo Sánchez Nava, the PRD's representative on the state electoral institute of Guerrero, when he photographed them tearing down electoral material belonging to Ángel Aguirre Rivero, the candidate of a leftwing coalition opposing that of the PRI-Green Party-PANAL candidate Manuel Añorve Baños.
The PRI thugs were traveling in a truck with plates from Mexico State - run by PRI's Enrique Peña Nieto. Is this the help promised by new PRI president Humberto Moreira and Peña Nieto to do all they can to ensure Añorve's victory?
Note that the response from Efrén Leyva Acevedo, the PRI's leader in the state, was to accuse his opponents of politicizing the occurrence.
While one would think that x-rays of Sánchez Nava's fractured cranium would more than suffice, the PRI leader rather demanded more "evidence" for what had taken place.
Twenty PRI thugs attacked Guillermo Sánchez Nava, the PRD's representative on the state electoral institute of Guerrero, when he photographed them tearing down electoral material belonging to Ángel Aguirre Rivero, the candidate of a leftwing coalition opposing that of the PRI-Green Party-PANAL candidate Manuel Añorve Baños.
The PRI thugs were traveling in a truck with plates from Mexico State - run by PRI's Enrique Peña Nieto. Is this the help promised by new PRI president Humberto Moreira and Peña Nieto to do all they can to ensure Añorve's victory?
Note that the response from Efrén Leyva Acevedo, the PRI's leader in the state, was to accuse his opponents of politicizing the occurrence.
While one would think that x-rays of Sánchez Nava's fractured cranium would more than suffice, the PRI leader rather demanded more "evidence" for what had taken place.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Dirty dealings in Guanajuato: Blatant conflict of interest in government purchases
In an audit, the secretariat of public administration in Guajanato issued a damning critique of the state's DIF, or the state's agency for family development, a social assistance association of sorts usually run by the wife of a governor, who may or may not have any qualifications whatsover to handle this job,
Regardless, in Guanajuato the audit found a "lack of probity in the use of public resources," perhaps most notoriously the decision by state governor Juan Manuel Oliva to spend almost two million pesos of tax payer money buying honey, to be distributed by the DIF, from the mother of his son-in-law.
While apparently technically not illegal, to call it a "conflict of interest" would be putting it mildly.
The probe also criticized a range of other aspects of the government's (lack of) transparency and probity in its management of public resources.
Guanajuato is one of the most retrograde states in Mexico, run by a particularly reactionary wing of the PAN, many of whom are members of the ultra-right catholic El Yunque society.
Regardless, in Guanajuato the audit found a "lack of probity in the use of public resources," perhaps most notoriously the decision by state governor Juan Manuel Oliva to spend almost two million pesos of tax payer money buying honey, to be distributed by the DIF, from the mother of his son-in-law.
While apparently technically not illegal, to call it a "conflict of interest" would be putting it mildly.
The probe also criticized a range of other aspects of the government's (lack of) transparency and probity in its management of public resources.
Guanajuato is one of the most retrograde states in Mexico, run by a particularly reactionary wing of the PAN, many of whom are members of the ultra-right catholic El Yunque society.
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