Weekly Report - 26 October 2004

The Fox government is very angry with Mexico City's chief prosecutor, Bernardo Bátiz. He has been called 'irresponsible' and his behaviour has been described as 'unacceptable'. His crime: airing part of a hitherto unknown 'corruption video', of the same batch the city authorities say the Fox government made public in March [WR-04-10], allegedly in an attempt to harm the presidential aspirations of mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the opposition Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD). This latest video mentions the name of a government minister with presidential aspirations of his own.