Latinnews Daily - 8 March 2004

Senator Enrique Jackson, the leader of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional in the senate, said that the country risked sliding into ungovernability because of the failure of various state governments and parties to punish crooks. Jackson clearly means the Mexico City government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which last week first lost its finance minister and then the leader of the majority party in congress, both on corruption allegations.