Weekly Report - 2 March 2004

Mexico's fourth-largest political party, the environmentalist PVEM, has become embroiled in a high-profile scandal after the broadcasting of a video showing its president, senator Jorge Emilio González, angling for a bribe to influence the approval of tourism and land-development permits in Cancún. González, sidestepping the evidence, has counterattacked accusing the government of conducting a campaign against his party.