Weekly Report - 27 April 2004

When Mexico city mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador publicly accused the federal government of having sat on information about a corruption case until it could do the most political damage to him, he waved a sheaf of documents to prove his case. Among these was a report provided to Mexico's finance ministry by the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, at the former's request, on the US gambling sprees of Gustavo Ponce, until recently finance secretary of the Mexico city government.