Mexico: Peña Nieto and the Juarez cartel

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January 27, 2017 By Fausta 1 Comment

Mexico: Peña Nieto and the Juarez cartel

 

In the flurry of news and criticism over the cancelled Peña Nieto visit, Ildefonso Ortiz and Brandon Darby remind us that the Juarez Cartel used shell companies to finance Peña Nieto’s presidential campaign; their article from March last year explains how,

 

The bombshell revelation was made this week by the independent news outlet Aristegui Noticias who claim that top officials of the Juarez Cartel financed thousands of cash cards that were handed out by Mexico’s Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) during the 2012 political campaign that resulted in the victory of Enrique Pena Nieto. According to the Mexican journalists, the cash cards were provided by a company called Monex. They were reported to be financed through a series of shell corporations by key players with the Juarez Cartel.

Through a three part series, the Mexican news organization identified Rodolfo David “El Consul” Avila Cordero as a key figure in the financial scandal that implicates the leading figures in Mexico’s ruling party the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI).

 

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Southern exposure:The costly border plan Mexico won’t discuss

 

 

Stephanie Nolen CHAHUITES, MEXICOThe Globe and Mail Last updated: Thursday, Jan. 05, 2017 3:27PM EST

 

They made it to the fourth point before they were robbed. Heading out of the tiny Mexican frontier town of Arriaga before dawn, the men had a map in their heads. Other migrants had described it to them; one sketched it roughly in the dirt. There were six places, on that day’s 14 hours of walking, six places where the banditos typically waited. Six places they must pass through and survive, as if this were some sort of real-life video game.

 

The men, three Salvadorans and two Hondurans, walked for 12 hours and got through three of the points with no visible sign of trouble, just a constant sense of imminent disaster.

 

Then, at dusk, as they walked down a path among the huge trees of a mango plantation, the robbers appeared: three men in masks – one with a machete, two with pistols. “Stop,” they said, simply. “This is a robbery.”

 

They ordered the walkers to strip, and snatched up their clothes. In a mercilessly efficient process that took less than 15 minutes,

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-costly-border-mexico-wont-discuss-migration/article30397720/