AMLO disavows CNTE ties

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AMLO disavows CNTE ties

The attack which took place yesterday in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca , during a rally of the presidential candidate José Antonio Meade – of the PRI, PVEM, and New Alliance coalition – have caused people to wonder who was the behind it. Mr. Meade said that the “only language (the assailants) know is throw stones.” During a statement, they singled out the National Coordination of Education Workers (CNTE) , who is supporting Andrés Manuel López Obrador . Oaxaca activists said Fredy Pineda Gopar, PRI member and Mayor of Mixtepec – of which Puerto Escondido is part of – said he is a man who doesn't like to sit back and do nothing and that his people responded to Meade's opposers. Last night, Andrés Manuel only responded: “regrettable [the incident]. And Meade wants to blame me but I tell him this: sweety, sweety, hurry up lest Margarita leaves you behind.” Someone stirs the hornet's nest.

Immunity sparks clashes in the Congress

Our sources within the opposition tell us that in the Lower Chamber, the center-right Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is thinking about disappearing the legislative body known as the Instruction Section, where several immunity withdrawal requests against legislators, governors, or even presidents are processed. The PRI is motivated in supporting the rulings on the removal of the constitutional immunity privilege, just like their presidential candidate, José Antonio Meade , is promising in his campaign. Yet we're told that the opposition groups will not jump on board with this scheme until the Senate approves it and the President is also stripped of his constitutional immunity. That is, they have set a course, but a collision one.

INAI seeks a replacement for Ximena Puente

After more than a year without meeting, the Anti-Corruption and Citizen Participation Commission of the Senate, chaired by Héctor Yunes, will have to receive this week 34 candidates to commissioner of the The National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI ) . The Justice Commission, who is also involved in the examination of the candidates, is debuting its president, member of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) Héctor David Flores. Since April 1, 2 positions opened at the INAI – after the commissioners Ximena Puente and Areli Cano concluded their respective terms – and since there is no gender rule at for the contests, it seems there are Pythagorical probabilities of the Senators appointing two men this time. After all, at this stage of the development of democracy in Mexico, no one believes the tales that some names or surnames have the DNA of a political party or a godfather. The interviews may well be transparent but for the final selection during the last week of April, the decision will be made in private and without explanations, in the shadows, even if we're talking about appointing Transparency commissioners...

Piñera, ¿cold towards Peña Nieto?

Despite how close they have grown in the last five years as a result of the strengthening of the Pacific Alliance, yesterday the President of Chile Sebastián Piñera , seemed rather cold and distant with President Enrique Peña Nieto . Upon meeting at the Family Forum, part of the 8th Summit of the Americas, in Peru, the Mexican Head of State saw his Chilean counterpart approach and sprang from his seat to greet him warmly, yet Piñera gave him a quick handshake, barely looking at him. 2013 seems so far away when they met in Chile and it was warm. Even further still seems that image of Piñera running in a park in Washington together with the Mexican President of that time... Felipe Calderón , of the conservative National Action Party (PAN).

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