The Atlantic's profile of Enrique Peña Nieto

It's well worth a read, by the excellent journalist Silvana Paternostro.

More on Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez de la Torre, PRI's strongman in Mexico City

El Universal has done a lot of good digging on Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez de la Torre, the "king of garbage," "Czar of trash," etc who controls upwards of half of the PRI's party council in Mexico City.
This article is a recommended read.

As it turns out, he is even a federal deputy - as suplente or substitute stand-in for PRI's Fuensanta Patricia Jiménez Case.

Truly anyone can become a PRI deputy, but it helps being a criminal and violent thug.

Must-read on Mexican Green Party, Partido Verde Ecologista de México (PVEM)

This article, which ran in El Universal a few days ago, is an absolute must-read on the Mexican Green Party (PVEM). It completely strips it down for what it is: a party "franchise" at the service of highest bidder and a tool for the pharmaceutical industry, all coalescing around its party leader Jorge Emilio González Martíne,a 30-year old who inherited the party from his father, and all his friends - they even recruited the house cleaner to become a federal deputy, just for kicks.

This is truly the most preposterous party in Mexico's political landscape today.
Here's a pdf with the most important characters in this franchise.

Gabino Cué will not go after Ulises Ruiz

Governor of Oaxaca Gabino Cué said yesterday he would not go after his predecessor Ulises Ruiz:

"When we have an element that can establish that he has committed an irregularity,  we will proceed, but to date we cannot act."

How disappointing. After his six years of criminal misrule, no evidence cannot be found? I find that extremely hard to believe.

PRI federal deputy kidnapped

I can't recall when this happened last, and certainly not in this legislature: PRI federal deputy Moisés Villanueva, from Guerrero, has been kidnapped for 10 days. 

Details are very sketchy, and the PRI legislative group is keeping a lid on the whole thing at the request of the deputy's family.

The deputy was, as the expression goes, levantado by armed men when he was visiting his district, Tlapa de Comonfort. No calls for ransom have been made.

When Milenio newspaper sought to investigate, they were chased away from the area by AK-47 wielding men.