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25 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
While thousands of #Mexican poor languish in prisons for months or years before ever getting to a trial, a judge in #Tamaulipas grants Governor Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca an injunction against the federal arrest warrant out for him.

Justice for sale.
jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/05/…
Cabeza de Vaca, of the conservative #PAN party, is accused of some $6.5 million pesos' worth of fraud and diversion of resources, purportedly used to rack up a series of luxury properties. He is also suspected of ties with the Sinaloa Cartel.

infobae.com/america/mexico…
The Federal Congress stripped him of his political immunity in order to clear the way for a trial. But the state legislature in Tamaulipas has refused to recognize the order and is protecting him, even sending armed vehicles to guard his residence.

jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/05/…
This is the first time a sitting governor has been stripped of his immunity, and the precedent has other governors worried. This is why the PAN is going all-out to protect him, despite the electoral suicide of shielding a suspected criminal during a midterm election season.

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14 May
1. #PRI's gonna PRI: the candidate for governor of the State of Nuevo León, Mexico is trying to buy votes.

Adrián de la Garza's campaign has distributed pink debit cards, promising women a bimonthly stipend will be deposited into it if he wins.

2. Electoral law is crystal clear in this respect. Article 7 imposes fines and a sentence of six months to three years in prison for those who (Section VI) "seek votes through payment, promise of money or other compensation."

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3. At his press conference denouncing the act, AMLO asked, "Where's the INE?"

Answer: busy contradicting itself. Here's @CiroMurayamaINE saying one thing in 2017 and the exact opposite in 2021, even though the law on this is even clearer now than then.

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7 May
1. *BREAKING* #Mexico has sent a diplomatic note to the #UnitedStates asking it to clarify its financing of the political opposition by means of donations from @USAID and @NEDemocracy to the organization "Mexicanos contra la Corrupción y la impunidad."

2. At #AMLO's morning press conference, he laid out a graphic detailing some $36,344,384 pesos ($1.8 million US) in donations since 2018.

jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/05/…
3. The note was prompted by the following investigation by the magazine @contralinea, whose correspondent raised the subject at yesterday's press conference.

contralinea.com.mx/gobierno-de-eu…
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30 Apr
1. At the beginning of 2021, #AMLO signed an executive order to ban GM corn and the toxic chemical #glyphosate over three years.

Now, a judge has provided #Bayer with a stay against the order.

The Mexican judiciary's war against AMLO's agenda continues.

reuters.com/business/energ…
2. The ban came as a surprise to the #US and #BigAg, which thought their lobbying efforts had been sufficient to quash any such measure. In fact...

iatp.org/blog/202102/me…
3. US agencies & #Monsanto did a full-court press to stop Mexico from taking action. Leaked #USTR emails complain of “vocal anti-biotechnology activists” in the administration, and that Mexico’s health agency (Cofepris) is “becoming a big-time problem”.

theguardian.com/business/2021/…
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23 Apr
1.) Yesterday, former Mexican president @FelipeCalderon came out complaining that he's being "persecuted."

Today it became clear why: Calderón has been implicated in the massive diversion of public funds to develop Mexico's prison-industrial complex.
2.) Through his then-Security Secretary Genaro García Luna -currently on trial in the US for drug trafficking-, the Calderón administration allegedly diverted some $300 billion pesos ($15 billion US today) into no-bid crony contracts for private prisons.

jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/04/…
3.) As I explained here, these long-term, sweetheart contracts (some possessed today by Black Rock) required the government to pay the companies as if they were at full capacity, regardless of whether a single person was in them.

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22 Apr
1. The Mexican Congress has overwhelmingly approved #AMLO's Anti-#Outsourcing law, which bans the practice for permanent or essential functions of a business or organization.

The law largely rolls back a 2012 labor 'reform' which opened the door to it.
jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/04/…
2. In addition to fueling a crisis of precarious work in an economy already massively dependent on "informal," no-benefits employment, the outsourcing boom of the last decade has cost the Mexican treasury an estimated $500 billion ($25 billion US) a year.

infobae.com/america/mexico…
3. Beyond the labor abuses, it also became an open door to crime. The so-called "King of Outsourcing," Raúl Beyruti, allegedly set up a network of 92 outsourcing shell companies to defraud the government.

In February, a warrant was issued for his arrest.

proceso.com.mx/nacional/justi…
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10 Apr
In recent articles (e.g. jacobinmag.com/2020/08/pena-n…), I have reported on how the energy privatization reforms of Enrique Peña Nieto were passed by bribing members of Congress.

Now, in a major development, 3 ex-senators from the conservative PAN party have been directly implicated.
They are Jorge Luis Lavalle, Roberto Gil Zuarth and Francisco Javier García Cabeza de Vaca. Lavalle was arrested on Friday; as a sitting governor, Cabeza de Vaca has immunity from prosecuction, which they were already seeking to strip for other crimes.
jornada.com.mx/notas/2021/04/…
Also under the gun - and reportedly on deck for charges - are 3 other ex-legislators: Salvador Vega Casillas, Ernesto Cordero and the PAN's 2018 presidential candidate, Ricardo Anaya, then Speaker of the House.

jornada.com.mx/2021/04/10/pol…
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