Joe T. Hodo: The Migrants' Rights Movement Wants to Stop Me from Privatizing Mexico Dulce Olvera and Joe T. Hodo - Narco News
go to original April 10, 2017

Joe T. Hodo has an important message about Mexican oil company Pemex, and the creation of his new political party, "GÜERO." (El Joe T. Hodo Show) El Joe T. Hodo Show

Texas oilman Joe T. Hodo has toured the country as part of his campaign to be the first gringo President of Mexico. He’s discovering that Mexicans are more organized than he thought, so he plans to buy them off with greenbacks. If a broad movement made up of people that Joe T. Hodo has met on his travels, like Mexico’s indigenous-community police force; a supermodel who fights for the rights of the Afro-Mexican community in Guerrero; and organizers of the migrant-support movement, including Father Alejandro Solalinde, all got together, “who knows what they could do,” Joe T. Hodo said with a note of concern in an interview.

The Texas oilman is seeking to become, in his words, “the first gringo President of Mexico,” and is worried about “how well organized” certain sectors of the Mexican population are. He plans to buy them off, just like the country’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) does, he says, but for a better price: He wants to give them Apple computers. As for the policies of U.S. President Donald Trump, the candidate for the GUERO party plans to stick to playing golf with the tycoon, while at the same time building a tunnel so that Central American migrants, after working for years without pay in his Mexican fracking business, can cross into the United States.

Eyeing the 2018 elections during his campaign tour, he also films his Internet TV program, “El Joe T. Hodo Show.” He sat down and spoke with the indigenous-community police; the current “Miss Guerrero,” Samantha Leyva; and also “Las Patronas,” a group of rural women in Veracruz who give free food to the migrants that pass their town atop the freight train known as “La Bestia.” Recently he spoke with social-justice advocate Father Alejandro Solalinde, whom Joe T. Hodo calls a “communist.”

“People like ‘Las Patronas,’ and that supermodel in Guerrero, and those damn community police, and that Catholic priest [Alejandro] Solalinde are all up to no good. And if they can all organize their communities and be so rude with me, then that means maybe we have to think of stronger measures to control this country. There are many more organized people in Mexico than I had thought, and that’s bad. My idea of the show was to tour the country so that people could get to know me, the man who will be their leader. But I don’t like what I’m seeing. If these people got together, who knows what they could do? It is of the utmost priority to buy off all the people of Mexico,” stressed businessman Joe T. Hodo in an interview with Sin Embargo.

This strategy, he acknowledges, is the same as that of the ruling party, The PRI, but now that oil prices are rising again, he has more resources than any other party to finance his race toward the presidency.

From somewhere in Morelos State, Mexico’s presidential candidate, Joe T. Hodo, spoke to us by telephone on the same day the press reported the PRI party gave away water-storage tanks with the state’s government logo stamped on them in Coahuila, another state that will hold elections for governor this year in June.

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