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Mexican president-elect accused of laundering money in his campaign
Mexico's ruling conservatives lent their support to accusations that President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto benefited from laundered money in his campaign, piling more pressure on the country's next leader. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesTo unite PAN and PRD against them, PRI must be really really corrupt. Good to see the sheen come off their candidate already, and he's not President till December. PRD next time I think
Jul 20th, 2012 - 07:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0The PAN and the PRD are not completely united against the PRI, the PAN´s making some allegations, but is not asking for the elections to be nullified.
Jul 20th, 2012 - 11:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0The PRD on the other hand, is going to follow the process in the courts, but once the courts ratified Peña Nieto´s victory, they will turn their back on Lopez Obrador for good, the new leader in the left is Marcelo Ebrard and he will start planning his bid for 2018.
Nothing new.
Jul 20th, 2012 - 02:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed nothing new. As I typed here many times, Mexico is a failed state and the most corrupted nation in the Americas.
Jul 20th, 2012 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The PRI is now, and always has been, totally corrupt.
Jul 20th, 2012 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fido Dido,
Jul 20th, 2012 - 10:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did you mean a “failed state” like in the hundreds of favelas where dozens of millions of black brazilians live in poverty, crime, disenfranchised by systematic racism? Can you elaborate on that?
Fido Dido,
Jul 21st, 2012 - 12:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0I know you are from Holland but it looks like you visited the barrio of Tepito in Mexico City or perhaps Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana or Monterrey itself LOL.
Fido probably visited Mexico, but I bet you he didn't find a racist society, he didn't find dozens of millions of mexicans denied a job or an opportunity to study because of the color of their skin.
Jul 21st, 2012 - 05:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0#2 “the new leader in the left is Marcelo Ebrard”
Jul 21st, 2012 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If thats true, good luck to him, and he's probably the next President
8 ”he didn't find dozens of millions of mexicans denied a job....
Jul 21st, 2012 - 03:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps because those millions were forced to move north.
#8 JoseAngeldeMonterry (#)
Jul 21st, 2012 - 05:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jose, Jose, you must be living in La La Land if you think that Mexican society is not racist or you are trying to pull the wool over somebody's eyes.
I traveled the length and breadth of Mexico for too many years to swallow that line.
That being said, I confess to a love and appreciation of Mexico and it's people.
Uncle Sam,
Jul 21st, 2012 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Every society has got its problems and I have to tell you that Mexico´s are a legion, but racism is certainly not a main issue in our society, and you can google that all you can, but if you make a simple research about discrimination in South American you will be shocked. And I know because I have traveled to the region as well. Every south american of european ancestry presumes that publicly, its like it is some kind of diploma or higher degree of some kind. Nobody in Mexico gives a damn about where your parents come from. Mexico´s a melting pot as much as many other nations in the americas, we have indigenous, european, asian and african ancestry as well but our mainstream culture is mestizo.
NY Times
Jul 22nd, 2012 - 05:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The World; Racism? Mexico's in Denial”
Mexicans typically deny that discrimination exists in their country, however many living descendants of Moctezuma are not allowed to eat in some of Mexico City's best restaurants.
Now it is the degree of Indianness, or the darkness of brown skin, that determines status. Many Mexicans living in the cities rely on hair dyes, skin lighteners and blue or green contact lenses to appear more white or European and less Indian”
Marcos,
Jul 22nd, 2012 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That's an article from 1995, and not a very reliable one. There is no restaurant in Mexico that will deny entrance to indigenous or mestizo people. The article won't mention one simply because it is a lie.
I bet you that you had a hard time finding a magazine article about racism in Mexico, I can find hundreds of academic investigations, studies, tesis, books and reports on racism in Brazil, and not from 1995, but today.
Jose
Jul 22nd, 2012 - 05:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No I didn't have a hard time to find a “magazine” article(New York Times) about racism in Mexico nor I need a person living probably in US to denied what I saw with my own eyes in Mexico.
Oaxaqueños, Chiapanecos and many more strongly disagree with you aswell.
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