More videos suggest bribery in Mexico
The “video scandal'’ returned to Mexico on Friday after local media broadcast new footage of politicians from the party of presidential front-runner Andrés Manuel López Obrador either requesting or giving money to a now-jailed businessman.
In one video, a former official from the Democratic Revolutionary Party, or PRD, hands over a suitcase containing what reports say is $1 million to the businessman, Carlos Ahumada. In a second video, a former gubernatorial candidate is seen asking Ahumada for a campaign contribution.
PRD officials said the videos were part of a campaign to embarrass the party before the elections to replace President Vicente Fox next year. They joined calls for an investigation of any wrongdoing but said none of it can be blamed on the party.
López Obrador, a left-wing former Mexico City mayor who has consistently led the polls in the presidential campaign, said the videos have nothing to do with him.
“You’re never going to see me in a video where I am receiving money or someone is receiving money in my name,'’ López Obrador told Reforma newspaper during a campaign stop in Veracruz state. “It has been demonstrated that I am totally clean.'’
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Bribery scandal fugitive caught in Mexico
A real estate broker who fled after being indicted on charges related to a bribery scandal at the state Office of General Services was captured in Mexico this week.
The arrest of Richard B. Sawyer, 55, a former Clifton Park resident, caps a federal investigation that focused on the role of political contributions in the awarding of state contracts.
Sawyer was arrested Thursday in Cabo San Lucas. He will be flown back to Albany to face charges in the case, authorities said.
A federal grand jury indictment on May 12 alleges Sawyer took part in a
Museo Nacional de la Revolución
The Museum of the Revolution offers an excellent opportunity to us to approach to us up to one of the more important historical times of this country. By means of objects and biographies of its main protagonists, one of the most violent and bloody times recreates to which the country must some of the most important profits of its last time. A visit to the museum can be an excellent departure point to enter to us in the study of this important political event. The videos that project in several spaces of the museum constitute very
Thirty miles east of Tlaxcala on Route 136 is Huamantla, an attractive little town (population 32,500). The Museo Nacional de Tfteres (puppet museum) is on Parque Juarez. It has nine rooms of puppets from around the world. ■Tue-Sat, 1000-1400, 1600-1800, US$1, students and children US$0.50. Camera US$2.50. Videos by prior arrangement. Parroquia de San Luis Obispo, Parque Juarez, lots of gold inside. Also on Parque Juarez is the Templo Franciscano, with interesting ceil¬ing paintings, side chapels and a high altar screen painted to look like green marble.
The eve of the feast of the Assumption, 14 August, is known locally
Subsistence
The ancient Maya had diverse methods of food production. It was formerly believed that slash and burn (swidden) agriculture provided most of their food but it is now thought that permanent raised fields, terraccing, forest gardens, managed fallows, and wild harvesting were also crucial to supporting the large populations of the Classic period. Indeed evidence of these different systems persist today: raised fields connected by canals can be seen on aerial photographs, contemporary rainforest species composition have significantly higher abundances of species of economic value to ancient Maya, and pollen records in lake sediments suggest that corn, manioc, sunflower seeds,
Mexico ex-mayor launches poll bid
The former mayor of Mexico City has registered his candidacy for next year's presidential race.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador signed up as a candidate for the Democratic Revolution Party's nomination, after stepping down as mayor on Friday.
Opinion polls suggest he is currently the favourite to win the poll.
Earlier this year he was the subject of a failed legal attempt to bar him from standing. About one million Mexicans rallied in the capital to support him.
"We know what needs to be done to make things better in this country," he said on Saturday.
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TNA News: iMPACT!, Japan/Mexico Stars, Sting, More News
The first iMPACT! taping of the new year will take place on January 3rd, 2006.
As noted here before, there are plans to bring in international talent from Japan and Mexico. PWI also reports that there are plans for TNA to take the independent bookings of their talents in house in 2006.
TNA will continue to air video packages of their stars on episodes of iMPACT!. There are already videos in the works for Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Monty Brown and Ron Killings. This is obviously a great move by TNA as
Mexico City combats sidewalk pornography
Mexico City launched an uphill battle this week against street vendors who have turned many of the city's sidewalks and subway entrances into in-your-face displays of graphic, triple-X movies and magazines.
Some 600 city police confiscated thousands of pirated pornographic videos from a five-block stretch Tuesday in an effort to force some of the city's unlicensed street vendors to be more discreet with their X-rated wares in this socially conservative society.
The city government also signed an agreement with an association of newspaper vendors this week to keep hard-core pornography magazines off front shelves near schools and parks.
The
Bank on outskirts of Mexico City bombed
Mexican police Friday were investigating a bank bombing that one official dismissed as a likely publicity stunt.
No one was injured in the bombing of a branch of Bancomer, one of Mexico's largest banks, which occurred in the predawn hours on the outskirts of Mexico City. Pamphlets left behind demanded "no Mexican support for the United States."
The pamphlets attributed the bombing to the Revolutionary Workers Commando, a previously unheard of group. A second bomb at a bank in a nearby community reportedly fizzled without causing significant damage.
An e-mail signed by the same group and claiming
Factions fighting over Mexico presidency candidates
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who left his job as Mexico City’s mayor in July to run for president, is currently favored to win the nomination of the Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD). But the party, originally formed through the alliance of several small leftist parties and dissidents who split from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), as well as the candidate himself, have been charged with corruption by Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
According to Mexico Labor News, Marcos said that a vote for López Obrador would be little
Mexico Will Keep Lowering Interest Rates, Ortiz Says (Update2)
Mexico's central bank will keep cutting its benchmark lending rate because inflation is in line with year-end targets, bank Governor Guillermo Ortiz said.
``We've started an easing cycle, we're lowering interest rates,'' Ortiz, 57, said in testimony before the Senate today. ``We're unlinked to the monetary cycle in the U.S.''
Ortiz said the bank is more focused on core inflation -- which excludes volatile fresh food and energy prices -- than the overall inflation rate. His comments suggest the bank will cut interest rates twice more before year-end even if rising fuel
