Diputado asesinado averiguaba irregularidades en alcaldías (El Universal, Mexico): A PANista legislator from the state of Guerrero, Mexico, who was, prosecutors charge, assassinated by the state leadership of his own party, was investigating corruption in his home district.
CHILPANCINGO, Gro.- Amagos y amenazas de muerte recibió el legislador panista Jorge Bajos Valverde, 20 días antes de que fuera asesinado.
PAN legislator Jorge Bajos Valverde was the target of harassment and death threats 20 days before his assassination.
Ello fue en respuesta a su decisión de reactivar la revisión de las cuentas públicas de 2003 de los 77 municipios del estado que había en ese entonces -ahora son 81- y que inicialmente arrojaban un daño patrimonial cercano a los mil millones de pesos.
This came in response to his decision to reactivate an audit of public accounts for 2003 in 77 municipalities in the state — the number is now 81 — an audit whose initial results indicated a shortfall of over a billion pesos.
Las investigaciones de Bajos Valverde, asesinado el 4 de enero en Acapulco, han puesto al borde de la cárcel a tres ex presidentes municipales y evidenciado a 10 ex alcaldes priístas, perredistas y petistas que ahora son diputados en el Congreso local.
The investigations being carried out by Mr. Bajos, who was murdered on Jan. 4 in Acapulco, threatened three former mayors with prison and dug up evidence against 10 former mayors from the PRI, PAN and PRD, all of them current members of the state assembly.
Fuentes autorizadas, entre ellos legisladores cercanos a Jorge Bajos, comentaron a EL UNIVERSAL que el diputado quería recuperar dinero de gastos no justificados y por eso revisó las cuentas públicas, aunque era trabajo de la anterior Legislatura.
Official sources, including legislators close to Mr. Bajos, told El Universal that the assemblyman wanted to recover public money spent without authorization, and was auditing the public accounts for that purpose, even though the project was an undertaking of the previous legislature.
Tanto en el Congreso de Guerrero como en la Auditoría General del Estado hay cautela y nadie dice nada. Funcionarios y legisladores niegan la existencia de información que pueda evidenciar las dificultades que tuvieron algunos ex alcaldes para justificar el gasto efectuado el trienio pasado.
In the Guerrero legislature, as in the state government accounting office, a mood of caution prevails, and no one is saying anything. Public servants and legislators deny the existence of any information that would indicate that some former mayors had problems justifying their expenditures during the last three-year term.
Después de varios días de estar prófugo de la justicia, Ramiro Arteaga, secretario general del PAN en el estado, acudió ayer amparado a rendir declaración.
After several days as a fugitive from justice, Ramiro Arteaga, PAN’s party head in the state, negotiated his surrender yesterday in order to give a deposition.
Se dijo inocente y que ignora por qué se le involucra en la autoría intelectual del asesinato de Bajos Valverde.
He says he is innocent of Mr. Bajos’ murder and that he knows of no good reason why he should be accused of ordering the assassination of Mr. Bajos.
En la ciudad de México, el PAN indicó que pedirá la creación de una fiscalía especial para indagar el crimen.
In Mexico City, PAN officials said the party would request the creation of a special prosecutor to investigate the crime.
PAN started out as a very idealist Christian-democratic party in the European mold, then took a very different turn starting in the 1990s, according to a tell-all book by one of its founding activists, published in Mexico late last year.
I cannot seem to find the translation I did of the exercept from the book however. Thought I posted that …
Oh, well, here is the Spanish-language original.
I will dig up the translation and repost, okay?
Pesos to the dollar, last two years.
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