The Newest 'Harvard Educated' Candidate in Mexico Gets Laughed Out of Class Rafa Fernandez de Castro - Fusion
go to original March 25, 2015

Garza in his Harvard jacket

A Mexican mayoral candidate has inadvertently become the class clown on social media after his bungled attempt to campaign as an Ivy League golden boy.

National Action Party (PAN) candidate Iván Garza, who’s running for mayor of the northern city of Monterrey, has been flaunting his “Harvard education” on the campaign trail.

Garza’s campaign spot on TV claims, “his capacity led him to study at the University of Comillas in Spain and Harvard University in the United States.”



But here’s the rub: Garza’s entire Harvard education was a $9,500 one-week executive seminar at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, which gave him just enough time in Cambridge to hit the university bookstore.

The self-styled “Harvard man,” who apparently lettered in gift-shop purchasing, has blamed the ruling PRI for allegedly orchestrating a social media war against him after a flurry of memes made their way around the Internet, along with the hashtag #FuiCincoMinutosAHarvard or “I went to Harvard for 5 minutes.”

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