Posted on 05/16/2010 1:11:42 PM PDT by Ladycalif
MEXICO CITY — State and federal police searched into the night Saturday for a prominent member of President Felipe Calderon's political party who was reported kidnapped late Friday near his ranch in central Mexico.
Diego Fernandez de Cevallos, 69, the 1994 presidential candidate of the National Action Party and a political mentor to Calderon and to senior members of his Cabinet, went missing shortly before midnight Friday as he arrived alone to his ranch in Queretaro state, about a two-hour drive north of Mexico City, officials said.
Searchers found “signs of violence” in the politician's vehicle. Mexican media and online postings — one by a former National Action Party president — reported that Fernandez de Cevallos was dead. But a spokesman for the Mexican attorney general's office denied those reports
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The Congo on the Rio Grande!
Family Values Ping
Remember about 30 years ago when oil was discovered in Mexico? The hype was unbelievable. Mexico’s problems with poverty were to be a thing of the past. The rest of the story though was that they needed lots of money to bring in the wells. US banks fell all over themselves getting down there to dish out the money. In fact, so much so they practically abandoned the American consumer. Well, as usually is the case, it didn’t work out like the hype said it would. Lots of people, especially American banks, lost their money, and Mexico was worse off than it had been before the big oil discovery.
I am outlining this by memory and I might be a bit off, but as I recall it was a disaster for everyone involved.
Sadly, I think he’s probably history. The PRI didn’t take kindly to their loss, and the drug gangs are known to be allied with the leftist parties, so I think he’s probably dead right about now (or wishes he were dead). Prayers for him - he sounds as though he was honest and ethical.
Mexican expropiation of oil companies was in 1938. Everything else is pretty much how I remember it.
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