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Mexico & Nafta - September 2016 (ISSN 1741-444X)

Peña Nieto suffers plagiarism blow

Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto plagiarised part of his university thesis to obtain his degree in law in 1991, according to a report by the local investigative journalism reporting team, Aristegui Noticias. The presidential spokesman, Eduardo Sánchez, responded by downplaying the significance of the findings as “a matter for journalistic interest”, but with Peña Nieto’s approval rating reaching a new low this gave the impression of affected insouciance.

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