Mexico: As corpses stack up in narco-violence, Presidents PR campaign launches
SOURCE: BOINGBOING • 2011-09-22
TOPICS:
Mexico • Gulf Of Mexico • Veracruz, Veracruz • Veracruz • Felipe Caldern • Government • Politics
William Booth in the Washington Post covers a disastrous media juxtaposition that many of my internet-friends in Mexico have been talking about online today: The timing couldnt have been worse. As Mexican President Felipe Calderon was unveiling a new campaign and TV program Tuesday to draw wary tourists back to his country, a gang dumped 35 bodies at a busy intersection in the tourist zone in the coastal city of Veracruz. One of those videos is here. To be fair, many in Mexico have been crit... read more »