by the El Reportero’s news services
Mexico suffers today the most horrible of the crimes of its history, affirmed Felipe Cruz, spokesman of the parents of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa missing since more than five months ago in the Mexican state of Guerrero.
On having intervened in the 19 International Seminar ‘The political parties and the new society’, that organizes the Party of the Work (PT), Cruz said that they will not give up the fight until they give them back their children.
They took them alive, we want them alive, he exclaimed before representatives of tens of parties and progressive political organizations and of left of four continents gathered in the Mexican capital.
It is the most horrible crime in the history of Mexico; they were murdered, tortured. One’s of them face was skinned, he assured.
We will fight so there are no elections as long as the political spectrum is not cleaned, warned Cruz, who made sure that from the bases there are builded structures of power opposite to the neoliberal and privatization precept.
In Mexico the struggle of the people is reborn, and it will not be the electoral way because we do not trust in the Mexican politics, he emphasized.
Seeing the experience of other peoples that have become independent from the neoliberalism give us the confidence that we can achieve it, underlined Cruz, who claimed of the presents to the political forum a support declaration to the cause of the parents of the Ayotzinapa 43.
PRI campaign leader investigated in Spain for illegal action
A head of the electoral campaign that led Enrique Peña Nieto to the presidency of Mexico is investigated in Spain for alleged illegal operations in the Banco Madrid, said today the newspaper El Mundo.
The newspaper cites unnamed sources from the Spanish police, according to which the defendant is Gabino Fraga, territorial coordinator of Peña Nieto’s campaign and member of the team that won general elections in 2012.
El Mundo said that Fraga is included in the report issued by the Executive Service for the Prevention of Money Laundering carried out on clients of the Spanish subsidiary of the Banco Privat d’Andorra (BPA), recently inspected under suspicion of money laundering.
According to the report, in this case a transfer of $445,000 euros is investigated for suspicion that it might be related to illegal funding of parties.
The newspaper indicates that Fraga was accused by main opposition candidate in Mexican elections Andres Lepez Obrador, of being involved in illegal financing actions.
According to the source, Peña Nieto denied the charge and accused Lopez Obrador of defamation, although the Executive Service for the Prevention of Money Laundering of Spain believes that Banco Madrid did not monitor Fraga in accordance with the law.
Former Uruguayan FM Luis Almagro elected OAS Secretary General
The Uruguayan former Foreign Minister Luis Almagro was chosen in this capital, by 33 votes in favor and one abstention, as the new Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS).
At an extraordinary meeting, the member countries of the multilateral agency gave the “yes” to Almagro, who was presented as the only candidate-to replace Chilean José Miguel Insulza (2005- 2015), the management officially expires on May 25.
Almagro, 51, is a lawyer and was Foreign Minister of Uruguay under President Jose Mujica, who delivered the presidence of Uruguay to Tabaré Vázquez.
