Mexico: Odebrecht allegedly paid for slick 2012 campaign

[Judi Lynn]

Christopher Sherman, Associated Press
Updated 4:09 pm CDT, Wednesday, August 12, 2020

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans were inundated by a slick, expensive ad campaign on behalf of front-running presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto for the 2012 election, but few then suspected who is now being alleged to have paid for it — Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which has admitted to involvement in widespread corruption in Latin America.

Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero Gertz said Wednesday that the case illustrates how the “perfect dictatorship” — a term used to describe Peña Nieto's old ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party — was “created to break the law, to loot and to enforce submission.”

Few things could have been further from most people's minds when the young, handsome Peña Nieto launched his slick presidential campaign in 2012, promising reform and modernization. But behind it all, he was allegedly using the corrupt old practices his party had perfected over seven decades in power.

“This is the double language, where one can be corrupt but also good, where one can be positive and at the time loot” the country, Gertz Manero said during a call-in forum. “One can have five or ten masks, according to whatever serves your purpose, but in the end it only leads to the destruction of the country.”

A day earlier, Gertz Manero said the former head of Mexico’s state-run oil company has testified that Peña Nieto and the man who became the finance secretary, Luis Videgaray, instructed him to pay foreign campaign consultants in 2012 with more than $4 million in bribes received from Odebrecht.

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/article/Mexico-Odebrecht-allegedly-paid-for-slick-2012-15477173.php

You might enjoy looking through the images of the amazing bungalow built for Mexico's royal couple, the always handsome Peña Nietos, by a political ally during Presidency. Inside a large living area, the entire place can be dialed to be any color of your choice for your entertainment:

https://tinyurl.com/y4ovnyk9



"young, handsome Peña Nieto" and wife meet the Queen



Spain's King Felipe meets the Queen



Queen Letizia, King Felipe, Queen Elizabeth

[Judi Lynn]

1. Reporter who broke Pena Nieto mansion story vows to fight sacking

Reporter broke story of alleged house gift to president’s family


Paul Imison in Mexico City MARCH 16 2015

Carmen Aristegui has carved out a career as Mexico’s most provocative broadcast journalist, breaking stories on conflict-of-interest scandals involving luxury houses and prostitution rings run by party chiefs.

Her chronicling of corruption in Mexico made her daily breakfast show on MVS Radio the most popular drive-time programme in Mexico. Not any more.

The members of her team who broke those stories were dismissed last week by the conglomerate MVS Communications. The station’s biggest star, Ms Aristegui went on air the next day and threatened to resign if they were not reinstated.

MVS announced in a brief statement late on Sunday that it would not accept her ultimatum and had terminated Ms Aristegui’s contract.

Within the hour, Ms Aristegui’s name was trending on Twitter and MVS was losing social media followers by the thousands. The 51-year-old has become known as an outspoken voice in a country where the media has traditionally bent to government censorship.

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https://www.ft.com/content/9968ba7a-cbf3-11e4-beca-00144feab7de

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2. PRI has always corrupt