The image of the federal government, seriously damaged by the fallout from the abduction and presumed massacre of 43 students in the town of Iguala last September, has been further eroded by conflict of interest scandals affecting the two people to whom President Enrique Peña Nieto is closest. As if the revelations about First Lady Angélica Rivera and her ‘White House’ purchase were not bad enough [RM-14-12], now it has emerged that the finance minister, Luis Videgaray, the man charged with reviving Mexico’s economic fortunes and the architect of the government’s economic reforms, has been caught up in a similar scandal.End of preview - This article contains approximately 1307 words.
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