Mexico's President Reveals $3 Million in Assets Under Public Pressure Over Mansion Agence France-Presse
go to original November 20, 2014

Mexico’s beleaguered President Enrique Pena Nieto made public all his personal assets yesterday as he struggles to quell a furor over a mansion his wife bought from a government contractor.

He acted two days after his wife Angelica Rivera said she would sell the US$4 million house to try to end the uproar.

Criticism of the mansion has been an extra headache for Pena Nieto. He is struggling with protests over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 college students by a gang in cahoots with corrupt police in the southern state of Guerrero.

Yesterday, the president said he owned four houses and an apartment. The most expensive property is worth about US$400,000, he said.

“With the goal of winning society’s trust, I have decided to make public all of my personal assets,” said the president, who had already revealed part of that wealth.

He was given two of the houses by his father, while the apartment was inherited by his first wife, now dead, said the asset sheet published on the web site of the Mexican presidency.

The president owns four lots of land, which he said were also gifts from his parents. Altogether they are worth about half a million dollars.

The president earns the equivalent of US$250,000 a year.

He also declared art works, jewelry and watches that were either gifts from his parents or inherited from his late first wife.

Also, he has bank accounts and investments worth about a million dollars.

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