Mexico Has A Crooked Government!

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Yo, now we know why Obama Loves Mexico, they are in the same boat!

Mexico's first lady returns mansion after scandal broke out


Aug. 21, 2015 11:51 AM EDT

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican First Lady Angelica Rivera has returned the $7 million mansion she bought from a firm that had won lucrative contracts with the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Rivera said late last year she was buying the house from the company on monthly payments with money she earned as an actress. The company held the title to the mansion until it was paid off. Rivera said last year she would sell off her rights to the property.

Government comptroller Virgilio Andrade said Friday that Rivera had reached an agreement with the company to pay about $635,000 (10.5 million pesos) in rent for the nearly three years she used the property.

The company agreed to return about $875,000 (14.5 million pesos) she had made in payments on the mansion.

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Are they "rapists"?

 

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Are they "rapists"?

Yo, if Trump said so!

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Police brutality Mexican style...

Mexico rights body: Police used excessive force in 6 deaths
Nov 25,`15 -- Mexico's governmental human rights commission said Wednesday that excessive use of force by federal police resulted in six civilian deaths in a confrontation last January, including a person who was shot dead while lying wounded on the ground and posing no threat.

It recommended that prosecutors open criminal investigations into the deaths. The federal police have always denied its officers used excess force. But on Wednesday, National Security Commissioner Renato Sales said federal police would cooperate with prosecutors' investigation of the deaths. The rights commission criticized authorities' handling of the incident on Jan. 6, 2015, in the western state of Michoacan, when federal forces moved in to dislodge members of self-defense groups who had seized the Apatzingan city hall more than two weeks earlier to protest electricity rates and crime.

Federal forces began their advance at dawn to clear the camp, producing confrontations. One person died then. Later that morning, those who escaped regrouped and called for reinforcements. A number of pickups filled with men pursued a federal police convoy that was taking seized vehicles to an impound yard. Video surveillance showed the men hopping out of the trucks and running toward the back of the convoy, some carrying sticks. Suddenly, they began running back in retreat. Nine people were killed there, including eight who were riding in two of the chase vehicles, a black SUV and a white pickup truck that were riddled with bullets. The commission's report said that guns seen lying around the white pickup were placed by the federal police, making it impossible to properly analyze the crime scene.

This Jan. 8, 2015 file photo shows bullet holes covering the back windshield of a pickup truck sitting in a scrap yard after it was hit during a Jan. 6 shoot out, allegedly between federal police and a convoy of former members of self-defense forces, in Apatzingan, Michoacan state, Mexico. Mexico's governmental human rights commission said Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, that excessive use of force by federal police resulted in six civilian deaths in a confrontation last January, including a person who was shot dead after he was already wounded on the ground and posed no threat to police.​

Commission President Luis Gonzalez Perez said that "excessive use of force resulted in the death of five people, and illegal execution of one person by federal police." Those five were unarmed when they were shot to death, the commission said. One of the dead suffered 27 bullet wounds. Another person lying on the ground was shot to death execution style by someone, presumably a police officer, who was standing above him, the commission's report said. "The victim yelled that he was unarmed and put up his hands as a signal of surrender," the report said. "He received the fatal gun wound when he was lying on the ground."

Carlos Vazquez, who was in one of the vehicle following the federal police convoy, told The Associated Press last January that officers fired directly into the white pickup and shot at the black SUV. Pedro Emilio was also in one of the vehicles following the federal police convoy. "They stopped, then we did, too, and we got out with the sticks," he told the AP. "Before we could get to them they began to fire from their trucks at us. We hit the ground and got away as best we could." The commission said none of the dead received timely medical attention.

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Mexico releases some tortured political prisoners...

Activists: Mexico releases alleged victims of police torture
Dec 3,`15 -- Several people who were wrongly detained and allegedly tortured by Mexican police have been released after spending years in custody, human rights groups said Thursday.

The releases involved four people who were arrested in 2012 and 2013 in cities along the border with the United States and accused of crimes of which they were ultimately absolved. They all walked free Wednesday. Amnesty International said in a statement that the cases offer "hope for justice in countless similar cases of people tortured and detained unfairly." Three of those freed were Cristel Pina, Eduardo Estrada and Leonardo de la O, who were detained in August 2013 in Ciudad Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, and accused of belonging to an extortion ring, according to two Mexican advocacy groups, the Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez and the Paso del Norte human rights centers.

While in custody they were allegedly tortured physically and psychologically by police, and Pina in particular was subjected to sexual abuse, the groups said. "Cristel's case reflects the systematic pattern of sexual torture faced by Mexican women who are detained by security forces. ... We consider it of utmost importance that the use of torture as a method of investigation is condemned," the centers said. Pina, Estrada and de la O were absolved by a judge Nov. 9 and are now seeking punishment for those who tortured them. Amnesty International's statement said Pina was beaten and tortured into giving a videotaped confession.

It also cited the case of Adrian Vasquez, a bus driver who was arrested over three years ago and accused of being a drug trafficker. He, too, was allegedly tortured by police, and was freed from a prison near Tijuana, across the border from San Diego. "The fact that judges in different states of the country can strike down shaky accusations based on torture shows us that there is some hope for justice in other cases," said Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty's Americas director.

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Mexico Has A Crooked Government!

You're just now figuring this out?

 

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Depends upon where in Mexico you're talking about. Some places are way less crooked than others.

 

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Corruption concerns drive lower public distrust of Mexican gov't....

Corruption Concerns in Mexico Drive Growing Levels of Public Distrust in Gov’t
May 19, 2016 – Mexico’s government faces the lowest level of public confidence seen in nearly a generation, with 61 percent of respondents in a recent poll saying the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Polling experts say the problem extends well beyond the presidency to the country’s governors, who “never land in prison” for corruption, according to a 2016 report on Mexico’s democracy by the Bertelsmann Foundation. Public concern with corruption is the highest seen in 11 years, according to the Mexican polling firm, Consulta Mitofsky. Sixty-one percent of Mexicans surveyed by the firm say the country is headed in the wrong direction. President Enrique Peña Nieto’s approval rating is at the lowest level of his presidency, which began at the end of 2012. Public disapproval of his performance, according to the firm’s latest polls for this year, stands at 61 percent. Most surprising is a recent spike in the public’s disapproval of the nation’s governors, according to Francisco Abundis of the polling firm Parametria.

The governors’ disapproval rating is at 50 percent, the highest level seen in 14 years, according to Parametria’s latest survey of 1,000 respondents released in April, he said. “For the first time in Mexico, we can speak of generalized discontent with the governing class not seen for 20 years,” Abundis said. “This is what surprises us. It’s not just the president that has a low approval rating.” Mexico’s “biggest problems” are corruption and conflicts of interest, according to the report by the Bertelsmann Foundation, which monitors the health of open markets, democracy and the performance of public officials in 129 countries. Its Mexico report, covering the period from February 2013 to January 2015, found that “corrupt governors and functionaries never land in prison and very few are forced to resign.” “There are no independent institutions with the power to impeach or prosecute governors, the executive cabinet or the president himself,” the report said.

It cited “widespread corruption among judges,” allowing them to be manipulated by “criminal groups” and “economic interests.” Mexico’s national Congress failed during its current session to act on anti-corruption legislation proposed by Peña Nieto, but members of the president’s party, the PRI, have promised to take up the measure during an extraordinary session this summer. The reform calls for the creation of a federal prosecutor focused exclusively on corruption, a special anticorruption court and tighter auditing of public expenditures. Meanwhile, the public’s growing disenchantment with Mexico’s democracy may be creating an opening for a populist candidate on the left to succeed Peña Nieto and win the presidency in 2018, according to a study by Medley Global Advisors as reported this week in The Financial Times.

Headlined “Mexico political risk on the rise,” the FT article specifically called out Andrés Manuel López Obredor, the former Mexico City mayor from the left who twice ran unsuccessfully for the presidency. He is back in the running again. Obredor’s popularity was compared with Donald Trump’s success at capitalizing on GOP voters’ disenchantment with establishment politicians. Responding to the report, Obrador in a press release chided the newspaper for its support of structural reforms to Mexico’s economy enacted by the Congress and the president, calling them a “failure.” Opponents of Obredor’s populist policies have called him “a danger to Mexico.” He said this week that the real danger comes from those who have “dedicated themselves to robbing the public.”

Corruption Concerns in Mexico Drive Growing Levels of Public Distrust in Gov’t