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Mexico’s Narco Televisa Scandal: The Impunity of the Elite
Even as he prepares to take office in a month, a mushrooming scandal in Mexico threatens that country’s new President, Enrique Pena Nieto. Some call it Mexico’s Watergate; the comparison might even be apt. Like Watergate—which picked up momentum only after Richard Nixon had won the ’72 Presidential election—the Narco Televisa Scandal is heating up…
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Spain Drug Bust Links Chapo Guzman, Mexico’s new President
When a lieutenant for the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested this week in Spain for drug trafficking, it became a major scandal in Mexico for a curious reason. Until several days ago no one had ever heard of someone from a drug cartel posting pictures of a drug trafficking operation-in-progress on Facebook. Yet that’s just what…