Enrique Peña Nieto

Meet Enrique Peña Nieto, the PRI candidate likely to become Mexico's next president on July 1. While I read with horror of Romney's homophobic high-school bullying, those incidents pale in comparison to the violence for which Peña Nieto is responsible.

This video, narrated by Mexican singer Regina Orozco, offers a succinct (and gut-wrenching) introduction to Peña Nieto, who served as governor of the Estado de México from 2006-2011. For those who don't speak Spanish, it compiles some of the most notable moments of Peña Nieto's political career:

• His first wife, Mónica Pretelini, died mysteriously in 2007. In interviews on TV, Peña Nieto has not been able to articulate the cause of her death; many think he killed her.
• As if his wife's death were not already suspicious enough, Agustín Estrada, a teacher in Ecatepec, Estado de México, says he had a relationship with Peña Nieto that lasted seven years. Peña Nieto later ordered Estrada raped and tortured. Human rights organizations took up his case, and he has been living in the U.S. as a political exile since 2010.
• His ignorance is on par with that of Bush: he can't name three books with their correct authors, and he doesn't know the minimum wage in Mexico or the price of tortillas (which is irrelevant to him, as he pointed out, since he's not a housewife).
• He chose Carlos Salinas de Gotari, Mexico's president from 1988 to 1994, as his "jefe de campaña" (campaign manager). Salinas violently imposed neoliberal privatization during his term -- and he signed NAFTA.
• He gave the orders for Atenco, a 2006 incident of massive police brutality in which 207 were subjected to cruel and degrading treatment, including the 26 women who were subjected to sexual torture.

http://mechadeyale.blogspot.mx/2012/06/enrique-pena-nieto-asesino-feminicida.html922 femicides were committed during his term.