I wrote:
Another big source of money would come from tightening the control over PEMEX.
One of Calderón's slogans during the campaign was "clean hands." During the last debate, Calderón kept attacking AMLO. One of the charges was, for example, that AMLO's driver had a son in a university in the U.S., raising the question of how a plain driver could ever pay the kind of tuition universities charge in the U.S. (As a former victim of the New School's hefty tuition fees, I have to say that the premise is impeccable!) By the end of the debate, AMLO turned around and said he was tired of Calderón's attacks and called him a hypocrite. AMLO charged that, at the very least, Calderón had been negligent while his brother in law grew fabulously rich in a few years working as a contractor for PEMEX, the electricity company, and other public agencies (including the SEDESOL, working on the databases of people benefited from federal welfare programs, and the IFE, the election arbiter, working on the software that handles voters' list, etc.). The revenues of the firms created by his brother in law grew in perfect coincidence with Calderón's political ascent and tenure as energy ministry. The documentation is here, including a pdf chart showing the complex financial engineering involved in the scheme (link labeled "Presentación" on this web page): http://www.prd.org.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=422&Itemid=37 At first, Calderón denied his brother in law had done anything wrong. Later, he washed off his hands, saying it wasn't his role to condemn or absolve his brother in law -- the implication being that it's up to God to judge him. Of course, Calderón didn't return a cent of the money that, according to public records, he received from his brother in law. I believe no official investigation has follow up on the claims made by AMLO. Julio
