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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
A sus 79 años, acribillado por algunas afecciones cerebrales que él describió con la minuciosidad de un médico, Fernando del Paso, el gran autor mexicano de José Trigo, Palinuro de México y Noticias del Imperio, pronunció ayer noche las palabras más delicadas, profundas y terminantes que hay hoy en la garganta de sus compatriotas mexicanos:
–¡Presidente Peña Nieto, todos somos Ayotzinapa!
Aludía el escritor, desde su silla de ruedas, al lado del presidente de Conaculta, su amigo el también escritor Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, a la situación creada por los secuestros de 43 estudiantes en aquella castigada zona del país, donde los narcos han borrado de la esencia de México su carácter de Estado de Derecho.
Podría haber hablado más Fernando del Paso, y de hecho en la intimidad de su casa o en los pasillos donde sonríe y ríe detrás de sus gafas oscurecidas, el más importante de los escritores mexicanos de hoy relata anécdotas, recuerdos; se refiere a la vida presente y a la vida pasada, y asiste, aquí, en la Fil, a actividades en las que se le recibe en medio de un homenaje constante.
Pero en esta ocasión, ante un público que, como sucede aquí, es casi el de un estadio cada vez que se reúne para escuchar, Fernando del Paso tenía que hablar de Octavio Paz, su amigo del que se cumplen cien años, y lo hizo con sus palabras pero no con su voz. Leyó su discurso Ángel Ortuño, un amigo escritor, porque para esos trotes largos no está la voz de este hombre que, por otra parte, en los años 70 del siglo pasado era una de las voces más lujosas de los informativos en español de la BBC de Londres.
Ese texto lo había escrito Del Paso en 1994, cuando México vivía la crisis de Chiapas (recuerdan: el episodio del comandante Marcos) en medio de “la estulticia, la crueldad infinitas” de los gobernantes de entonces. Dio escalofrío escuchar esas palabras del autor minucioso y genial de Noticias del Imperio y echar la vista a los lados de lo que ahora mismo sucede. Aquí y en muchas partes del mundo.
Sus advertencias incluyeron las propias de Paz: contra las desigualdades, los nacionalismos fanáticos, el individualismo feroz
Con esa nobleza que da la rectificación, además, en este texto que él escribió para rendir homenaje a Paz, con quien colaboró, y de cuya biblioteca de Guadalajara fue director, el narrador recorre lo que pasó con su conciencia civil de los años 60 y 70. Entonces, como muchos jóvenes intelectuales mexicanos (y de otros países del mundo, España entre ellos), Del Paso deploraba las posiciones de Paz de alerta ante las consecuencias desviadas de la Revolución cubana, que pasó de practicar la ilusión a practicar el dogma. Ese “deterioro irreversible” del concepto de Revolución dio paso al dogma, y añadió: “Y el dogma sustituía al dogma”.
Ese “idealismo pueril” con el que se recibió el dogma en aquellas edades revolucionarias “se prolongó durante muchos años”. Fue mucho después cuando él y otros (aquí, en el mundo, también en España) advirtieron que los avisos de Paz eran en defensa de la libertad; y no era la defensa, como se dijo, de un hombre que se hubiera puesto al lado de los poderosos, ni de los iluminados del libre mercado, sino de la libertad, puramente. Relató nombres (Castoriadis, Semprún, Savater) para citar a algunos capitanes de la antidemagogia, que, como él, hicieron ese viaje de reconciliación que Paz aceptó.
En este punto, Del Paso (que pasaba las hojas de su propio texto mientras las iba leyendo su amigo Ortuño) relató su intercambio de cartas con Paz; esas cartas sellaron tal reconciliación, de la que él se honró. Fue una confesión (que ya había hecho, por otra parte) que sonó en el Salón 6 de la Fil (al lado de donde iban a homenajear a García Márquez) como un subrayado de las advertencias de este momento, a favor de la libertad, en contra de la demagogia.
Luego hubo, por parte de Del Paso, una reivindicación multilateral del carácter de Paz (ensayista, poeta, observador del arte, antropólogo); pero él concluyó con la ansiedad política, o civil, que ahora parece describir los sufrimientos del intelecto de la ciudadanía, sin que ésta aprecie los riesgos que corre el aire de la libertad.
Las advertencias de Del Paso incluyeron las propias de Paz: contra las desigualdades, contra los nacionalismos fanáticos, contra el culto al éxito, contra el individualismo feroz.
Lo fueron a ver cientos. Por la mañana uno de sus más acendrados lectores, Claudio Magris, el escritor italiano que recibió ayer mismo el premio FIL, había puesto en el primer plano de sus preferencias literarias Noticias del Imperio; por la tarde, Magris cruzó un danubio de cuerpos para llegar hasta donde estaba el acto de Del Paso, para escucharlo.
Cuando terminó el mexicano, su amigo italiano se acercó al estrado, tomó en sus manos la silla de ruedas para empujarla. Y Magris caminó un trecho conduciendo a Del Paso, hasta que los perdimos de vista, yendo ambos hacia un idéntico horizonte.
Source Article from http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/11/30/actualidad/1417363151_982826.html
En nba en las últimas 24 horas
- Otra lección de Pau dispara a los Bulls
- El canastón de Mirotic a lo Jordan
- Marc lidera la NBA a lo MVP con el quinto triunfo consecutivo de los Grizzlies
- Kobe ya es el ‘abuelo’ de los récords y con un inaudito ‘triple-doble’ salva a los Lakers
- Garnett intenta ‘un Luis Suárez’ con Noah: “Trató de morderme… es de locos”
- Marc Gasol desvela el secreto de su ascenso MVP: una dieta casi vegetariana
- El Levitador Gerald Green abusa con un automate a tablero para reinar en el top
- El “sucio” Garnett: “Si le hubiese querido morder sólo tendría que haber hecho como Mike Tyson”
- Calderón no encuentra el Zen en Nueva York y claudica ante la resurrección de ‘Flash’ Wade
- Claver se asoma en Portland pero sigue sin debutar esta temporada
Source Article from http://www.marca.com/2014/11/30/baloncesto/nba/noticias/1417325744.html
· Los datos que refrendan la candidatura de los Gasol al All Star
· Pau Gasol: “Jugar el All Star contra Marc es una posibilidad”
· VIDEOENCUESTA: ¿Es Marc el mejor pívot de la NBA?
· La NBA reconoce a Marc Gasol como el actual MVP
La misma fórmula, un buen ataque y una gran defensa en los momentos decisivos, sirvieron a los Grizzlies de Marc ‘MVP’ Gasol (18+6+5) para imponerse 85-97 en Sacramento a los Kings para sumar su quinto triunfo consecutivo.
Esta vez el líder del juego ofensivo fue Zach Randolph, que aportó un doble-doble de 22 puntos, 12 rebotes –10 defensivos–, repartió 4 asistencias y recuperó 3 balones.
Junto a Randolph el español Marc Gasol se mantuvo en su línea de jugador decisivo tanto en el apartado individual como de equipo y consiguió 18 puntos, 6 rebotes -todos defensivos-, y 5 asistencias, además de recuperar un balón y poner un tapón.
Marc jugó 31 minutos, en los que anotó 6 de 11 tiros de campo y estuvo perfecto desde la línea de personal con 6-6, mientras que le ganó el duelo individual al pívot Ryan Hollins, que siguió de titular en el puesto del hombre franquicia de los Kings, DeMarcus Cousins, que se perdió el segundo partido por un virus.
La baja de Cousins se hizo sentir demasiado en el juego interior de los Kings, que nada pudieron hacer ante la superioridad que mostraron Randolph y Marc, además de los reservas el ala-pívot Jon Leuer, que aportó ocho puntos con cinco rebotes, y el pívot Kosta Koufos, que capturó cuatro balones bajo los aros.
Tony Allen reivindicó su condición de gran jugador defensivo al recuperar dos balones, además de ser eficaz en el ataque con 13 puntos tras anotar 5 de 7 tiros de campo y 3 de 7 desde la línea de personal.
Courtney Lee llegó a los 11 tantos y el base Mike Conley anotó 10 puntos y repartió seis asistencias, que lo dejaron como el quinto jugador de los Grizzlies que tuvieron números de dos dígitos.
Como equipo, los Grizzlies lograron un 48 por ciento de acierto en los tiros de campo (38-79) y el 23 de triples (3-13), pero donde estuvo la clave de su triunfo fue en haber forzado nada menos que 23 perdidas de balón a los Kings que convirtieron en 23 tantos.
La victoria dejó a los Grizzlies con marca de 15-2, al mejor de la NBA, medio partido por encima de los Warriors de Golden State (14-2), que también ganaron a domicilio 93-104 a los Pistons de Detroit y consiguieron el noveno triunfo consecutivo, la racha mayor ganadora actualmente en la NBA.
Los Grizzlies consiguieron una ventaja de 21 puntos en el segundo cuarto, que fue todo lo que necesitaron hasta el último, cuando aseguraron la victoria al volver a realizar su mejor defensa y hacer una buena selección en los tiros a canasta.
Rudy Gay, exjugador de los Grizzlies, se convirtió en el líder del ataque de los Kings (9-8) al aportar 20 puntos, cuatro rebotes y tres asistencias.
Mientras que Ben McLemore llegó a los 18 tantos y el ala-pívot reserva Reggie Evans surgió con su mejor actuación en lo que va de temporada tras conseguir un doble-doble de 17 puntos y 20 rebotes, que no fueron suficientes a la hora de impedir la tercera derrota consecutiva que sufrieron los Kings.
Source Article from http://www.marca.com/2014/12/01/baloncesto/nba/noticias/1417408516.html
En nba en las últimas 24 horas
- Otra lección de Pau dispara a los Bulls
- El canastón de Mirotic a lo Jordan
- Marc lidera la NBA a lo MVP con el quinto triunfo consecutivo de los Grizzlies
- Kobe ya es el ‘abuelo’ de los récords y con un inaudito ‘triple-doble’ salva a los Lakers
- Garnett intenta ‘un Luis Suárez’ con Noah: “Trató de morderme… es de locos”
- Marc Gasol desvela el secreto de su ascenso MVP: una dieta casi vegetariana
- El Levitador Gerald Green abusa con un automate a tablero para reinar en el top
- El “sucio” Garnett: “Si le hubiese querido morder sólo tendría que haber hecho como Mike Tyson”
- Calderón no encuentra el Zen en Nueva York y claudica ante la resurrección de ‘Flash’ Wade
- Claver se asoma en Portland pero sigue sin debutar esta temporada
Source Article from http://www.marca.com/2014/12/01/baloncesto/nba/noticias/1417419509.html
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
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No Programa do Jô desta sexta-feira, 28/11, o apresentador Jô Soares entrevista Marcius Melhem, Emílio Dantas e Kellys Kelfis e Priscila Ullmann.
O ator e comediante Marcius Melhem está junto com seu parceiro mais constante, Leandro Hassum, no filme “Os Caras de Pau”, que tem estreia marcada para 25 de dezembro. Ele também vai falar da nova temporada de Tá No Ar: A TV Na TV, que deve estrear em janeiro na Globo.
Emílio Dantas está interpretando Cazuza no musical: “Cazuza – Pro Dia Nascer Feliz”, em cartaz em São Paulo. Até Ney Matogrosso ficou impressionado com a semelhança entre os dois. Lucinha Araújo, mãe de Cazuza, vai participar da entrevista.
As atrizes Kellys Kelfis e Priscila Ullmann são as idealizadoras do F.E.S.TA. (Festival de Esquetes de Santa Teresa), que este ano acontece nos dias 5, 6 e 7 de dezembro e tem Zéu Britto como um dos jurados. A história delas é bem curiosa, Kellys é da Paraíba, e além de atriz é massoterapeuta. Priscila é de Porto Alegre, formada em Psicologia, e conheceu Kellys há 7 anos, quando fez curso profissionalizante na CAL – Centro de Artes de Laranjeiras, no Rio de Janeiro. O evento é gratuito e vai reunir também oficinas e exposições.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126