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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 16 June 2017

MEXICO: New corruption case implicates PAN

The emergence of a video recording in which a deputy of the right-wing Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) apparently offers to clear the fiscal deficits racked up by a mayor in Mexico’s San Luis Potosí state in exchange for the diversion of a proportion of public funds towards some of his colleagues, has produced outrage. This is reminiscent of the ‘moches’ case that emerged in 2014 [WR-14-33], suggesting that despite the widespread indignation that the scandal produced back then, political parties have failed to stamp out the practice.

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