Tim Johnson: The Strange 'Businessmen' Visitors to Mexico's Senate Tim Johnson - McClatchyDC
go to original November 22, 2013

Senator Luisa Maria Calderon responds to supporters at a rally this summer in Morelia, the state capital of Michoacan. (The Federalist)

Can go-betweens from organized crime simply march into Mexico’s Senate to meet with politicians? You bet.

At least, that’s what Sen. Luisa Maria Calderon says occurred Oct. 17. Calderon is the sister of former President Felipe Calderon, and a native of Michoacan, where the Knights Templar organized crime group reigns.

Calderon set off a firestorm this week with allegations that Templar go-betweens arranged a meeting with the Senate’s Public Security Commission. The “businessmen” were from Apatzingan, ground zero for the Templars, and said they represented the “Michoacan Association for Peace and Dignity.”

When the commission’s head, Sen. Omar Fayad, asked her to attend the meeting, Calderon said she responded that she had “the feeling that they were sent by the Templars.”

The meeting went ahead anyway.

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