Embarrassing video costs Mexican politician Luis Villarreal his job
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.
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