Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon Sparks Twitter Buzz by Flying Coach Rafa Fernandez de Castro - Fusion
go to original April 8, 2015

Hey @FelipeCalderon, is Harvard paying you so little you can’t even afford to pay a first class trip? (@villapandoc)

Mexican Twitter is humming after user @jvillalpandoc posted a runway selfie showing former Mexican president Felipe Calderon sitting behind him in coach class on a flight from Mexico City to Acapulco.

The photo and a subsequent flurry of tweets went viral, triggering an interesting discussion about class and privilege in Mexico.

Some Twitter users compared Calderon’s leg-cramped trip with that of David Korenfeld, the director of Mexico’s water commission, who on last week took the liberty of using a government helicopter to transport himself and his family to the Mexico City airport. That incident, too, was exposed by Mexican social media.

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