Questionable Tweet Puts Mexican President's Secretary on Defensive Tracy Wilkinson - The Los Angeles Times
go to original June 17, 2014

This image was published and subsequently withdrawn from the Twitter account of the secretary of EPN. (Twitter)

The private secretary of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was on the defensive Monday after a photograph appeared on his Twitter account that seemed to be making fun of Central American migrants who, routinely and in huge numbers, board a dangerous train to cross Mexico.

The photo disappeared from the account of Erwin Lino soon after local media began calling attention to it.

Copies shown on websites and Mexican television portrayed a jet flying through the skies with dozens of young men clinging to the top of the fuselage. A caption read: “Honduran soccer team on way to Brazil” for the World Cup.

The apparent attempt at humor was intended to mimic La Bestia, or The Beast, a ramshackle train that crosses from Mexico’s southern border with Central America and carries on northward.

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