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January 4th, 2000
Once again the Mexican public opinion is shocked by new reports about corruption inside the Campaign Team of Francisco Labastida, Candidate of the ruling PRI to the Presidency of Mexico. Yesterday, Labastida, the same way former presidents Miguel de la Madrid, Carlos Salinas and Ernesto Zedillo hipocritly did in their own campaigns, promised to fight against the tremendous corruption dominating both the PRI and the Government it has integred. Today, in the front page of the most prestigious newspaper Reforma (banned since 1995 by the PRI- controlled Newspaper Distributors Union), there were printed the photographs and names of the main collaborators of Labastida's Campaign Team, as well with terrible accusations against them. Here are some of them:
Daniel Cossío. Stole four million pesos when Governor of Jalisco. At that time, the exchange rate was 3 pesos per dollar, so he stole at least 1.6 million dollars. He had to resign when an explosion in the State Capital, Guadalajara, killed over 315 people. His succeeder,
Manuel Rivera had to give back to the Jalisco Government 83000 pesos he stole to avoid political trial at the Mexican Congress. When he stole them, the exchange rate was also 3 pesos per dollar (Stole about U.$ 27000). When he gave them back, it was 9 pesos per dollar, so he earned U.$ 18000
Emilio Gamboa. Linked to a drug cartel. READ.
Hugo Andrés Araujo. Leftist leader of the Mexican Peasant Confederation. Accused of being accomplice to the murder of José Francisco Ruiz by the murderer himself.
Ángel Romero. Senator for Hidalgo State thanks to lies and fraud: He wasn't born there, nor he has ever lived there.
Jorge Schaffino is being investigated for the selling of public goods (Pieces of street) to irregular merchants.
Maximiliano Esparza (aka "Maximiliano Silerio Ruiz Esparza") Another leftist peasant leader. Stole 20 million pesos when Governor of Durango. That equaled U.$ 6.66 million.
Dulce María Sauri. Implicated in "irregular" selling of public land in Yucatán.

Is this the "New PRI" Labastida preaches? Labastida hipocritly claims this team will help him fight corruption both within the PRI and within the Government. It is a matter of fact that if Labastida gets to the Presidency, corruption will increase substantially in Mexico, and economic unstability will shock the financial markets of the world (and your pockets as well) again, just like in late 1994, when about U.$ 31 billion disappeared from the Bank of Mexico and the "Tequila Effect" caused hundreds of investors got ruined thanks to the most corrupt PRI.

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