Embarrassing Video Costs Conservative PAN Congressional Whip His Job Tracy Wilkinson - The Los Angeles Times
go to original August 14, 2014

Embarrassing video costs Mexican politician Luis Villarreal his job (ExcélsiorTv)

Gustavo Madero, of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), which held the national presidency in 2000-2012, said in a statement Wednesday he was “renewing” the House leadership. He did not say why. He did not have to.

Mexican Congressman Luis Villarreal was fired from his position as leader of the former ruling party's delegation in the lower House of Deputies after an embarrassing video surfaced of him at a party in the coastal resort of Puerto Vallarta.

Villarreal and several other PAN politicians were taped having quite a party in the coastal resort of Puerto Vallarta. There were many drinks and much dancing with, ahem, young-women-not-the-politicians’-wives. Newspapers identified the women as “sex workers.”

Mexican commentators and others seized on the hypocrisy: The PAN was founded on, and still prides itself for, traditional family values and deep Catholic roots.

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