Embarrassing video costs Mexican politician Luis Villarreal his job

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Los Angeles Times

Embarrassing video costs Mexican politician Luis Villarreal his job

August 13, 2014, 3:52 PM|Reporting from Mexico City

Yet another embarrassing video in Mexico has cost a major politician his job..
The head of Mexico’s former ruling party, Gustavo Madero, on Wednesday fired Congressman Luis Villarreal from his position as leader of the group’s delegation in the lower House of Deputies.

Madero, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), which held the national presidency in 2000-2012, said in a statement he was “renewing” the House leadership.

Villarreal and several other PAN politicians were taped having quite a party in the coastal resort of Puerto Vallarta. There were many drinks and much dancing with, ahem, young-women-not-the-politicians’-wives.

Newspapers identified the women as “sex workers.”
Mexican commentators and others seized on the hypocrisy: The PAN was founded on, and still prides itself for, traditional family values and deep Catholic roots.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-luis-villarreal-video-20140813-story.html

[rpannier]

1. But they're conservatives

I thought 'an apology, their wives have forgiven them, they've rededicated their lives to Jesus and have been forgiven' was all they need

on note: Good Riddance. Wish their party would go with them

[mackerel]

2. When did conservatives become as horny as liberals? LOL

[Uncle Joe]

3. Here's the video, you don't even have to understand Spanish to get a gist of what's going on.

Villarreal did not help his case with his defense. Rather than address what was happening at the fiesta, he lashed out at whoever took the “illegal videos” for “political ends.”

His deputy, Jorge Villalobos, was also at the party and also was removed from the PAN House leadership post.

This year, federal authorities arrested Jesus Reyna, who had served as interim governor of the state of Michoacan and also its number-two position as government minister, after he was caught on tape meeting with fugitive kingpin Servando Gomez Martinez, a.k.a. La Tuta, head of the Knights Templar drug-and-extortion cartel. Reyna remains in prison.

(snip)

The tape of Villarreal, the PAN legislator, was apparently made in January but for reasons not clear not released until now. Villarreal retains his position as congressman and a member of the party.

http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-luis-villarreal-video-20140813-story.html

Thanks for the thread, Judi Lynn.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Amazing. Really whooping it up, and all on the Mexican people's money.

Their "loved ones" must be so proud of them.

[Blue_Tires]

4. Wow...And I thought it was impossible to fire Mexican pols...

[marble falls]

6. The Americanization of Mexico.