In other News, Francisco Blake Mora died today (GRAPHIC)

[nadinbrzezinski]

in a helicopter crash outside Mexico City...



http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2011/1111/Mexican-Interior-Minister-Blake-Mora-killed-in-helicopter-crash

Oh and they say no foul play. This is the SECOND Interior Minister killed in two years...

And that chopper (french model) is quite sturdy whirly bird... I will just say that two accidents, as in two aircraft having issues... and I will leave it at that.

BBC link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15704404

[MADem]

1. Hmmm. Hard to know yet.

I can understand why some people are suspicious, though.

Investigators blamed that crash (ed-three years ago) on the fact that the small aircraft was flying too close to a jet, which may have led to turbulence that led the pilot to lose control.

But at that time, Mexicans speculated that drug traffickers were behind the accident and that the government was hiding the real cause.

That speculation could re-emerge, now that two interior ministers have died in aircraft accidents. “This will certainly be a boon to conspiracy theorists,” says George Grayson, an expert and author on Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations at the College of William & Mary.

Erubiel Tirado, a security expert at the Iberamerican University in Mexico City, says that bad weather or mechanical failure are more likely the culprits in this case. While Blake Mora's death means that Calderon will have to replace a key figure in his cabinet, just as energy and attention has gone towards presidential elections in 2012, Mr. Tirado says Blake Mora played a secondary role in the fight against drug traffickers.

[malaise]

2. I did wonder when I heard this

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

[a la izquierda]

3. I got this news briefing in a Mexican news digest...

yesterday. My first thought was to Mourino in 2008.
Strange circumstances.