Mexican president backs official accused of suspect real estate purchases

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador speaks during a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico August 30, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Romero

MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday expressed support for Manuel Bartlett, the head of national electricity company CFE, despite accusations that Bartlett has improperly accumulated nearly two dozen luxury properties.The president tapped Bartlett, a veteran politician with a controversial past, to lead Mexico’s state-owned power utility.

Bartlett, then a member of the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party , is well known in Mexico for announcing on election day in 1988 when he served as interior minister that the vote-tabulating computers had crashed as the main opposition candidate was in the lead. When the computers came back online, the PRI’s candidate had won, drawing accusations of fraud from critics.

Lopez Obrador won a landslide victory at the polls last year after vowing on the campaign trail to root out corruption. Mexican journalists Areli Quintero and Carlos Loret de Mola this week reported that Bartlett controlled a vast real estate empire worth far more than the assets reported in his public declaration.Reporting by David Alire Garcia; Editing by Will Dunham

'...I have another numbers'

These real estate purchases are the least of Bartlett sins, so to speak.

He’s disgusting 🤢

Es lo único que da! Pena!!!!!!!!

💔💔💔💔💔💔:-)~~~:-I|:-)

That is tipycal of Lopez, support their own employees with just a saying and is enough... and investigation? come on it is not neccesary he trusts Bartlett and that is it... shameful!

Que pinche vergüenza que hasta en otro país se esta hablando de encubrimientos de casos de corrupción del vejete de AMLO

DEMENTE

Me avergüenza mi gobierno, me dueles México.

it is a truth

Shocking....not really

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