GINIng up the numbers
Gancho Blog mentions a report which claims Mexico’s GINI coefficient is the “most equal distribution at any point in the century, and quite probably the best in history.”
The number itself (0.485 for Mexico) is somewhat misleading. First off, equality of distribution doesn’t mean people are doing well. Canada, Ukraine, Ethiopia and Algeria — which have relatively “good” GINI coefficients are not by any means in the same socio-economic boat. Secondly, I think the author is using a different co-efficient than most. Normally, the GINI number is usually expressed as a ratio with 0.0 being absolute equality, and 1.0 being a place where one person holds all the wealth. He claims the exact opposite (a higher ratio being more equality).
Even if the author is correct that equality of income is rising, it doesn’t mean poverty is not rising. Any claim that there is not more poverty in Mexico would fly in the face of every other study and measurement. Mexicans may indeed be more equal… equally poor.
Gancho’s source seems to be trying to spin a narriative that requires undercutting the Mexican government’s own statistics — as well as those from outside sources — which show a rise in poverty rates. As with the Republicans in the United States, the PANistas in Mexico are trying … without much success… to sell the concept of cutting social programs during a recession by complaining about the statistics.
Expect a showdown in the new legislature. Víctor Mayan in The (now pro-PRI) News writes:
President Felipe Calderón on Tuesday was warned that any attempt on his part to shut down anti-poverty programs will be met with a roadblock by Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) legislators.
Senator Manlio Fabio Beltrones, who coordinates PRI members in the Senate, said that in September, when his party becomes the majority in Congress, the PRI will introduce a bill to change the Social Development Law to prevent monies allotted to these programs from being used with electioneering ends.
Other crime news
Hit and Run
Aurelio Díaz Hernández was killed by a hit-and-run driver in Mitzitón, Chiapas Monday. Normally, that wouldn’t be national news, but Díaz was leading a group of local ejitarios that are blocking construction of the Palenque-San Cristóbal de las Casas highway which threatens communal properties. Hard to say it was an accident when the driver who hit Díaz was in a pickup without any plates, and had four passengers carryig AR-15s.
Do not pass go, do not collect 200
Being an ex-President doesn’t mean you get to change the rules of the game. Although there are already houses on his property, Vicente Fox wants to build a hotel. The problem is, Fox’s house is Hacienda San Cristóbal, built in 1614. Under Article 52 of the “La Ley Federal sobre Monumentos y Zonas Arqueológicos, Artísticos e Históricos” converting a property built before 1824 without authorization from the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia can get you ten years in a not-so-historically signficant federal prison.
Fox has been trying to raise the funds to set up something called “Centro Fox”, which is more or less modeled on the Carter Center in Plains Georgia, but about as popular with its neighbors as the proposed George W. Bush Library is in Dallas.
Gabriel Rentería, the local director of the office of Urban Development for San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuanto filed the official complaint. The local municipal council is now looking into how construction started without a building permit.
Will the fat lady sing?
Estela González Calva was booked yesterday on suspicion of being one of the two ladies of the evening responsible for the deaths of midget wrestlers La Parkita and El Espectrito II. González admits to having spent time in the hotel rom where the two brothers — both well known midget luchadores — died of respiratory arrest after drinking alcoholic beverages laced with cyclopenthalate. She also admits providing the eyedrops containing the knock-out drops… but blames the actual killing on an accomplice, known only as “La Gorda”.
If it wasn’t for the outcome, the concept of two athletic midgets, a fat lady and the 65 year old Ms. González might have had a certain appeal… not for me, and I don’t know anyone in this particular subgenre of the porn industry, but I know a guy who did a film on body snatching and Abe Lincoln… sounds like something for him.
The good news? Auto thefts down. The bad news?
Ciudad Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told reporters that the military operation has reduced crimes including auto thefts, commercial robberies and bank heists.
“We have to make adjustments, but there is no radical change in the method of operating,” Reyes said, adding that the municipal government was examining whether to request a six-month extension of the army’s presence until March 2010. “We can’t say the operation has been a failure, because it hasn’t concluded,” the mayor said in separate comments.
Murder is one crime that definitely has not gone down since the initiation of Joint Operation Chihuahua. The latest press accounts report more than 1,000 people murdered in Ciudad Juarez alone during the course of 2009 — a rate much higher than in 2008 before the reinforcement of the army and federal presence in the border city.
Frontera Nor/Sur (translation via Newspaper Tree, El Paso)
Although we’re assured by Monte Alejandro Rubido Garcia, the Federal Government spokesman for security that “90 percent of the [11,000 killed in the “drug war” since the Calderon Administration took office] were ‘delinquents’,” and I assume he’s more or less correct, it still might not be a bad idea to give the delinquents a proper trial.
There seems to be some reliance on “body counts” to measure “success” in this so -called war, which makes me wonder if all the “delinquents” were even involved in the narcotics trade, or… if the reason auto thefts and bank robberies also dropped, isn’t that — as in Colombia — there might not be a temptation to goose the kill ratio.
Leaving aside evidence that suggests death squads, both in Juarez and in Quintana Roo — and the possibility that not all so-called “drug war” deaths are related to narcotics trafficking, assume that ninety percent of those killed are delinquents. It could be — but I hope it isn’t — that the numbers are being inflated with people that even if they were tried and convicted of their crimes in those barbaric regions of the planet (like Texas) where capital punishment is still practiced, would have been legally executed.
At least some Mexican politicians are starting to consider alternatives to the “drug war”… insisting on more attention be paid to money laundering and gun running. We have nothing to lose … except maybe old Volkswagens without alarm systems.
He knows who done it
Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s Jose Daniel Fierro is one of the best fictional characters in Mexican letters. In La vida misma (Planeta, 1987) successful crime fiction writer and leftist intellectual Fierro is roped into the job as a police chief (recruited by a municipio libre trying to break free of corrupt party control, and where the previous police chief has just been assassinated). Knowing only about crime from writing about it, with the help of the people, he solves the murder… the typical crime involving gringos, greed and political corruption … that you’d find in life itself, and not just the pages of “Life Itself“.
Writing murder mysteries in Mexico is a bizarre enough activity as it is — given that our crime news is often weirder than anything in fiction — but Taibo, at the Semana Negra crime fiction festival in Gijon (Asturias, Spain) — has taken his fictional Chief Fierro one step further… daring to unmask the culprit in a major Mexican crime… in the person of his own leftist intellectual crime writer persona:
At a press conference in the northern Spanish city of Gijon, Eduardo Monteverde, Jorge Moch, Francisco Hagenbeck and Paco Ignacio Taibo expressed their concern for the spiraling violence and asked [Mexican President Felipe] Calderon to stop the war against drug gangs and seek an alternative to the conflict.
Taibo, the director of Semana Negra, said that Calderon “sold his soul to the devil” in accepting the conditions imposed by the United States to launch a “war against the drug traffickers” in exchange for “acknowledging his legitimacy and forgetting the electoral fraud.”
Calderon – who was elected in 2006 by the slimmest of margins in balloting his leftist opponent says was marred by fraud – has made the battle against his country’s ruthless drug cartels a cornerstone of his administration.
This “original sin,” Taibo said, has unleashed enormous violence among the drug cartels in which “anything goes” because it’s a case of “drug traffickers against drug traffickers, drug traffickers against the police, and police against other police,” while in their midst thousands are killed.
One hopes he doesn’t end up like Chief Fierro did in “Life Itself”, though there is redemption of sorts (and the loving arms of a very tall gringa) as a reward for the Fierro’s dedication to truth, justice and the Mexican way in Leonardo’s Bicycle.
Separation of Church and Party… to save the Church
While it’s not surprising that the Catholic Church is worried about its falling “market share” in Mexico, what is surprising is that a study done by the Archdiocese of Guadalajara discovers that one reason the Church is viewed as irrelevant by increasing numbers of Mexicans is an image problem — it’s seen as too closely identified with PAN.
Claudio Bañuelos original article (my translation) appeared in La Jornada (19 July 2009):
Aguascalientes, Ags. The auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Guadalajara, Jose Trinidad González Rodriguez, warns that it is “urgent” for the Catholic Church to separate its “image” from that of the National Action Party (PAN) because too many of the faithful in Jalisco and elsewhere see the Church as supporting the party.
González , who also is the coordinating Bishop for Charismatic Catholic Renewal said he came to this conclusion after looking at a study which showed that many in the country were leaving the Church for political reasons. The “Pan debacle”, he said, was predicted by this study, and is likely to be a further drag on the Catholic Church.
The results call for the Church to “always keep itself far from any particular political party platform, respecting all of them,” he said.
He emphasized that to maintain the faithful and to rescue and reconquer others for Christ and his gospel, Catholicism must be seen as impartial and apolitical, “while of course priests and bishops have the same rights as any citizen,” he added.
The same study showed that in cities like Leon, Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Colima, Aguascalientes and Tépic, Nayarit, there is “hope” that children and adolescents will not loose their faith, but that in Guadelajara – the capital of Jalisco – “it’s a losing battle.”
Furthermore, the study shows that seventy percent of professionals no longer go to Mass. “It is urgent we develop a new pastorate focused on the Holy Spirit, to stop the slide in the youth population we’re seeing presently in the Archdioceses of Guadalajara. We need a new kind of priest, to make sure we don’t lose them, as we have the business class, the professionals, the union members and the politicians – to stop them from going down the tubes, too,” he admitted.
One bright spot for the Church was the finding that eighty percent of women trust their priests, but – at the same time – are more critical of the clergy in general. “This reveals another very difficult field of endeavor that the Church needs to consider,” Bishop González added.
González also touched on what he sees as a new religious attitude, well-established in this country: “valemadrismo” by which he means the family no longer attends the liturgy, leaving it for the women and younger children. This is the reason he insists “The Church’s challenge is to reclaim the Christ of the Gospels for the millions of adolescents and the professionals who have given up on parishes, Masses and priests.
What makes this study — and its conclusions — doubly interesting is that the Archdiocese of Guadalajara is known for its conservative clerics and the sometimes overt displays of political partisanship on the part of its clergy. Much of the area covered by the Archdiocese was that where the Cristero movement of the 1920s was strongest, and what foreigners often mean by “the real Mexico”… and where they assume religious piety is a part of the culture.
Running out the clock in Honduras
Machetera (translating from a Cuban source) posts a document supposedly from the Honduran Defense Ministry, listing Roberto Micheletti as a member of the Cali drug cartel. Cuban exile blogger Babalu, citing an obscure Catalan website claims there is proof that the Zelaya government had computers already set to rig the non-binding referendum. Both sides are reduced to saying the other guys are bigger crooks than their guys.
Babalu, by the way, also includes a post on why the late Walter Cronkite was a commie… which makes me think the de facto regime is not really hoping to sway world opinion, but only to continue preaching to the converted: an A.P. wire story appearing early Tuesday morning reports that the de facto regime is dispatching “lobbyists” to bolster their case, based on those old chestnuts, anti-communism and free-trade.
Which may be all that’s needed.
While the Zelaya government was willing to “negotiate” with the de facto regime to at least allow the President to return to his country have been rejected out of hand. The United States keeps saying “we really, really mean it this time” every time the negotiations stall, but it appears that the whole point of the exercise is to keep stalling for time, until the legitimate government finds itself forced to accept some sort of compromise that will prevent any radical constitutional or social change from taking effect.
As of now, the “really, really, really mean it” threat is from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is is warning the de facto regime that there will be “consequences” if negotiations break down. The nature of these “consequences” — whiile Honduran military personnel continue training at U.S. bases — a 180 million dollars in various aid programs that “might” be in jeopardy if negotiations do not continue seem to be more likely to starve Zelaya supporters into submission (or driving them into rebellion) than anything else.
At last report, the latest negotiating deadline was Wednesday… by which point maybe the U.S. will really, really, really, really demand somebody do something … or call a ti me out… or …
And that’s the way it is
Walter Cronkite (4-November 1916-- 17 July 2009), D.E.P.
I remember. I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost — and the shock when, 20 years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
Today, our nation is fighting two wars: one abroad and one at home. While the war in Iraq is in the headlines, the other war is still being fought on our own streets. Its casualties are the wasted lives of our own citizens.
I am speaking of the war on drugs.
And I cannot help but wonder how many more lives, and how much more money, will be wasted before another Robert McNamara admits what is plain for all to see: the war on drugs is a failure.
State of Exception
Via WW4 Report:
Some 5,500 federal police and army troops have been deployed to Michoacán to combat La Familia—a particularly violent cartel whose members study a “special Bible” and claim to be evangelical Christians. The bloc of the left-opposition Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) in the Mexican Senate has issued a statement denouncing what it calls the illegal and unconstitutional “occupation” of Michoacán. The statement charged that Presient Felipe Calderón is attempting to “debilitate” the administration of the state’s PRD governor, Leonel Godoy Rangel. In its own statement, the PRD’s National Political Commission charged that there is a “state of exception” in Michoacán, and that the federal government is attempting to impose a “totalitarian state” there. (El Universal, The Telegraph, June 19; La Jornada, July 18)
Zetas having either disappeared or lost their cachet (you just don’t hear about them right now), there needs to be a “threat de jour” to keep the “War on Drugs” hopping. Admittedly, La Familia is slightly different than other gangster clans, having their own religion and all, but it hardly — as The Guardian puts it — a “Drug ‘Taliban’.”
I’m not sure if it’s Jo Tuckman’s fault, or the Guardian’s editors, but Servando Gómez Martínez — the alleged leader of “La Familia” who spoke by telephone with a Morelia radio host last week following coordinated attacks on police throughout the State of Michaocan last week, allegedly masterminded by his gang — is not THE “leader of a cartel fighting a war that has claimed 11,000 lives in three years.” La Familia is just one gang that nobody heard of back when it was all Zetas all the time, or when it was Chapo (or, rather, the Beltran Leyva gang, which had broken with Chapo).
As this “War” becomes more and more unpopular here, and as the Calderon Administration becomes more and more politically isolated, I expect they’ll keep ratcheting up the rhetoric… it sounds more dramatic to announce that a large number of mayors and officials have been arrested than — as was expected as soon as the elections were over — that several officials have already been released for lack of evidence. Some may have “La Familia” connections, but then, it’s also a “family values” organization, which gives it support by all kinds of people (even Roman Catholic clerics) not suspected of any ties to the narcotics end of things.
Gómez Martínez spoke of “negotiating” with the government, which no one — not the federal government, not the state government, not the political parties, not the Church, and not the Human Rights organziations — take seriously. And La Familia’s only bargaining chip is an end to violence. A “state of exception” doesn’t end the threat, but does set aside pesky impediments like civil rights and civilian oversight as the feds move in… until either “la familia” is neutralized (along with whomever the feds decide is also a threat and can be called “familia”) or there is a new threat de jour.
By the way, United Nations figures on marijuana production are out. Mexico’s production has plummeted from 25,800 tons in 2007 to only 15,800 in 2008. Paraguay passed Mexico this year, to become the world’s second largest marijuana producer after Morocco. However, the United States is rapidly moving up, now matching Colombia’s 4000 metric tons per year production levels.
HOLY CRAP!
Shannon Dillon (KBTX-TV, Bryant/College Station Texas):
The Pachuca family says an image on their pickup truck is a miracle. The image, that came in an unlikely form of a bird dropping, appeared Sunday July 12. That was the first time Salvador Pachuca had been back to the home since having an accident there four months ago.
“I told my brothers come over here and see what this is and they say this is the Virgin,” says Salvador Pachuca.
KXBT-TV video image
Family members made their way outside to see the image on the truck’s side mirror. Cristal Pachuca says she took pictures and began making calls to invite others to see, what she describes as, a miracle.
“We just all feel protected. It’s a blessing to our family and to everybody that comes to see it,” says Cristal Pachuca.
Cristal says the truck doesn’t get much use, but last weekend her husband decided to take it out of their garage and wash it. A few moments later the image appeared. Since Sunday, a steady stream of family, friends, neighbors and strangers have stopped by to pray and take pictures of the image.
A warning that God’s gonna dump on Texas, or just proof that Texans are full of…?
Despite continued resistance (nearly all major highways are blocked), the coup has continued to hold on, and thanks to obvious Venezuelan interference (though not from the Venezuelan government), and U.S. support, the coup is “winning” simply by staying in power long enough to force acceptance of the status quo.
Roberto Carmona Borjas, a Venezuelan whose shady Arcadia Foundation (the group’s website: arcadiafoundation.org only has an introduction screen, and no information) has been pushing claims that deposed President Mel Zelaya was corrupt (which is an after the fact justification for the coup) describes himself as an academic (at both American University and George Washington University, both in Washington, D.C.). The GW Hatchet (an independent student newspaper at George Washington University) wrote about Carmona’s graduate course in Political Management last October:
The class, which meets Tuesdays from 7:10 p.m. to 9:40 p.m., already boasts an impressive list of speakers, including Colombian President Alvaro Uribe; U.S. ambassador to Venezuela Otto Reich; Leopoldo Lopez, a Venezuelan politician; Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutiérrez and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has also been invited.
Reich is misidentified as the Ambassador to Venezuela . He WAS Ambassador during the Reagan Administration, during which time he arranged for the release of wanted terrorist Orlando Bosch, who was involved in blowing up a civilian airliner, though, being a Cuban airliner, has never been pursued by the United States government, despite Bosch’s residence in the U.S. More importantly, as Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs during George W. Bush’s administration, Reich attempted to build support for the attempted 2002 coup in Venezuela among other nations in the Hemisphere. That coup, like the 28 June coup in Honduras, started with the military removal of the elected President, followed by a statement (the Carmona Decrees) which claimed consitutionality for the action. Carmona Borjes is said to have authored that document, which is confused by the fact that the President of the Venezuelan Chamber of Commerce (who was installed as president — supposedly under constitutional procedure) is another Carmona: Pedro Carmona Estanga.
Leopoldo Lopez was the municipal president of Chacao (a borough of Caracas) and an anti-Chavez politico of note. While there is some controversy over his removal from office, there is no question that his party received illegal funds from the Venezuelan oil company (where he was employed and where his mother was head of public affairs) before the coup, and was the legal reason for removal from office.
Carlos Gutiérrez and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen are both active in right-wing Cuban exile politics. Alvaro Uribe is, of course, the President of Colombia (which has its own anti-Venezuelan biases) and Hillary Clinton is… oh, somebody of importance in the Obama Administration.
As in Venezuela, the modus operandi seems to be coup first, justification later. Unlike in Venezuela, where opposition to the coup forced the leaders to retire within 36 hours, the Honduran coup is now in its third week. The “de facto regime” today presented three scenarios for their own retirement, (link to Processo [Tegacigalpa]– in Spanish) all of which absolve them of responsiblity for the coup (basically, justifying the action and setting a precedent for such actions elsewhere in the Hemisphere) and locking into place the status quo.
All the legalistic back and forth is, of course, important, but doesn’t address the most basic of human rights. Hemano Juancito wrote today about a small Spanish-funded project that would held the poorest of Hondurans set up gardens. In going over the applicants for grants, Juancito noted:
There were small and large families, Catholics and Protestants. But two things struck me. First, many of the houses had dirt floors. But, worse, many of the people’s diets were almost completely restricted to corn tortillas, beans, and eggs, with meat maybe once a week. Some ate almost no vegetables, though some occasionally included potatoes in their diets. No wonder there is so much malnutrition.
In 1958 United States Vice-President Richard M. Nixon tried to lecture Mexican President-elect Adolfo López Mateos on the dangers of Communism in Latin America. López Mateos, it’s said, gave Nixon an impromtu tour of the slums of Mexico City in his own car, just the two of them, then told Nixon, “The threat to stability and growth in Latin America is not from Communism, but from ‘Hungerism’.”
The “de facto regime” in Honduras — even if by some chance the justifications created by a Venezuelan exile are accepted — will never be legitimate, nor will it create stability or anything else — while it attempts to turn the clock back, and return to a system that forces hungerism on its people.
To see ourselves as others see us…
A couple of months ago, a fugitive from U.S. justice was arrested in Mazatlan — nothing I would have paid any attention to, and really don’t think is worth commenting on. I’m not even sure why it was considered newsworthy. But I happened to run across mention of it on a tourist website, linked to the original article in Noroeste de Sinaloa, where Moises Valencia Armienta left this interesting observation about foreigners in the Mexican resort towns:
This a problem in every port in this country: crazies, war criminals, pedophiles, murderers, the ill, retirees, alcoholics, etc. come in without the kinds of controls you have in the interior. Here in Mazatlan, our security is in the hands of corrupt officials who should have control over who is let into our country.
By the way, I’m working, don’t drink, am in relatively good health, and haven’t committed any war crimes, murders or taken liberties with minors. I must have slipped through the cracks.
One added link — in italics
The headline the Los Angeles Times chose to run on Ken Ellingwood’s article on the confusion surrounding the capture of a second set of suspects in the Fernando Marti kidnapping and murder case sums up the absurdity of the situation.
Of course, there is nothing funny about it when a 14-year old boy is kidnapped and murdered, but when the boy’s father, millionare sportsware manufacturer Alejandro Marti became the face of an astro-turfed anti-crime movement (fomented by endless advertising on Televisa and pushed by PAN as a way of showing support for the Calderon Administration’s anti-crime initiatives) there was always something dubious about the case.
Federal District prosecutors claimed the people they arrested — including FEDERAL police officers — were the culprits, although they admitted they did not know who exactly murdered the boy. Those arrested were supposedly from a gang called “La Flor” which, under the leadership of former federal agent Sergio Ortiz, scoped out the pricier health clubs to identify potential victims.
However… this week, FEDERAL police claimed that they have arrested members of a second kidnapping gang, led by Abel Silva Petriciolet (who is still at large) and that two members of the gang confessed to murdering Marti.
The Petricolet gang is said to have been under investigation for a number of years, and to have murdered at least kidnapping victims… 14 year old Marti and a 16 year old boy among them. While the District Prosecutor insists his gangsters (La Flor) are the right guys, he has been gentlemanly enough to share… suggesting that perhaps the target of the Federal Prosecutor’s target– the Petricolet gang — “might” somehow be related to his case. But, the District Prosecutor claims he’s never heard of the Petricolet gang before now.
I’ve known Mexican prosecutors, and in high-profile crimes (especially where there is an incentive to resolve it quickly) it’s very likely that someone will be “persuaded” to confess to the deed rather quickly. Which will make for splashy headlines… the long delays as the prosecutor fails to develop a case less well noted, and the culprit’s eventual release hardly noted at all. Given the political presure to find someone, at first I assumed that the “La Flor” gang might not be the right people (much as after the Morelia bombings last year, the gangsters of the month, the Zetas, we were assured were the culprits, and the first shady characters pulled in at a roadblock “confessed” to their involvement in the attack).
But, this case always was odd. Not just that only wealthy, conservative crime victims were chosen as “spokespersons” for the big anti-crime rallies, but that as the local Mexico City prosecutor’s investigation began pointing towards involvement by Federal police officials, the Administration’s concerns for public security and safety switched to rooting out “corruption” among opposition party figures.
Somebody was bound to notice. Ganchoblog has a range of reactions, all dubious of the latest arrests. Of course, the hardly fair and balance Blogotitlan (its who raison d’etre is to propandize for the “Legitimate Presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador), raises the questions less politely than some, but as legitimately as any:
When the Federal District Prosecutor began unraveling the case of Fernando Marti (under pressure from Alejandro Marti, who famously said, “if you can’t resolve the crime, then resign”) strands within the investigation nearly led to the Federal Secretary of Public Security, a line of investigation immediately halted by Felipe Calderon.
Today, the Federal Prosecutor hauls out another “culprit” in the kidnapping and murder of young Marti… this one confessing to the crime, but with no corroborating evidence being presented.
Did two gangs kidnap and kill the same person, unbeknowst to each other? Either the District Prosecutor, or the Secretary of Public Security is lying.
A “citizen’s watchdog” group (paid for by Calderon’s administration) has demanded answers … from the District Prosecutor, not from the Secretary of Public Security, who has offered no corroborating evidence beyond the “confessions”, undoubted obtained by the technical means usually employed by Mexican police.
It can’t be that the Federal Secretary wants to protect their own “persons of confidence” (some accused by the District Prosecutor with at least partial culpability in the crime) from investigation — or, at the very least claiming a “triumph” for the discredited Calderón — while seeking to rehabilitate valued accomplices in their criminal activities.
The worst thing about all this is that the Federal Secretary admits to having shadowed the gang his office claims is responsible for these crimes since 2005: time enough for them to commit several misdeeds with no attempt to halt them. Inefficiency or complicity?
In the recently relevant words of Ricky Ricardo the Federal Secretary has some ‘splain’ to do.
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