Reaction to recent comments by presidential hopeful Emilio Gonzalez on the decades-long sins of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) came swiftly this week from his former rival for the Jalisco governorship, PRI federal congressman Arturo Zamora.
Speaking to members of his own National Action Party (PAN), Governor Gonzalez had said: “The PRI don’t want young people to remember that they headed repressive governments that murdered those who didn’t agree with them … the PRI wants us to forget President Echeverria and 1968 (the student massacre), ‘71 with Lopez Cotilla (the debt crisis), Acetal, Aguas Blancas … and the PRI wants us to forget the poverty created by the sweeping corruption of its governments.”
Referring to several national and international independent sources, Zamora responded by explaining how corruption has almost doubled in the last 13 years – ten of them ruled over by a PAN president. Since 1998, Mexico has fallen from 51st place in Transparency International’s “cleanliness’ list to 98th out of 178 nations, he noted. Peru, Botswana, Guatemala and Barbados now rate higher than Mexico.
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