Mexico: Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, ‘El Bronco’, former governor of Nuevo León, is arrested for alleged diversion of resources

The former governor of the Mexican state of New LionJaime Rodríguez Caldeŕon, ‘El Bronco’, was arrested this Tuesday morning in the municipality of General Terán, in the state’s citrus region, accused of improper use of public resources to collect signatures that allowed him to obtain the presidential candidacy by the independent route for the federal elections of 2018 in Mexico.

Elements of the Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in Electoral Crimes of New Lioncarried out the operation against the former president who, as an independent candidate, he became state governor on October 4, 2015and ended on October 3 last year, and he managed to “make history”, for being the first independent to win an election in the modern life of the country.

SIGHT: Shootings and chaos in the Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo after the capture of a drug trafficker

Although he promised that he would not look for another position, he barely sat in the chair of the Government Palace, The Bronco began to tour the country giving lectures and taking advantage of any pretext to promote his imagewith the purpose at first hidden, of seek the presidency of the Republic in 2018.

This is how he embarked on the adventure of collecting signatures to meet the most difficult requirement that electoral legislation poses for candidates without a party who wish to occupy a public office of popular election.

• Explosion in Mexican Caribbean restaurant leaves two dead and 21 injured | VIDEO
• Indigenous environmental activist murdered in northern Mexico
• César Valencia, mayor of Aguililla, a Mexican region plagued by drug trafficking, is assassinated

Hundreds of public servants, among them the high-ranking officials of his cabinet, dedicated themselves to obtaining signatures but they allegedly did so during working hours.according to the electoral authorities, who nevertheless validated his candidacy.

As a candidate and later as governor, he undertook a crusade against corruption that allowed him to put his predecessor, Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, in jail for less than 24 hours. By participating in a presidential debate organized by the INE, The Bronco he won the spotlight, by proposing “to shake hands with the corrupt”. He now she has to render accounts for acts of corruption that are imputed to him.

“Who made her pay”: Samuel García

Samuel Garciagovernor of New Lionuploaded a video on your social media in which he pointed “Who made her pay?”, referring to the arrest of Jaime Rodriguez Calderon “El Bronco” for the crime of diversion of resources.

“Whoever made the payment, whoever stole or diverted public resources from their friends, their nephews, their favorites, their campaigns is going to go to jail”.

When the aspirations of Ríos Piter and El Bronco faltered

In 2018, the National Electoral Institute (INE) detected fraud in the search process for two independent candidates for the Presidency, with almost a million “credential simulations” to vote, conduct for which they were practically left out of the race Jaime Heliodoro Rodriguez Calderon “El Bronco” and licensed senator Armando Ríos Piter.

At that time, Margarita Zavala presented 432 cases of simulations, which involved the use of a template to appear as a green card with valid registration data, which constitutes an electoral crime. But Rodríguez Calderón and Ríos Piter accumulated 970 thousand; that is, almost a million false credentials.

At the end of 2019, the Congress of the state of New Lion determined that the then independent governor, Rodriguez Calderondiverted resources from the public treasury to obtain the signatures that would allow him to obtain his presidential candidacy, also through independent channels, and compete in the 2018 elections.

The day that “El Bronco” proposed “mochar la mano” to thieves

In 2018, during the first debate between presidential candidates, the independent candidate, Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, proposed “mocharle la mano” to the public servant who steals.

“I am going to present an initiative to take the hand of the one who steals, as simple as that, I will present the initiative to Congress to see if their deputies dare to approve it.”

“The Bronco” He began his speech by pointing out that he could have been one of the victims of the country’s violence.

Corrupt persecutor: El Bronco is arrested for diversion of resources

There are two days that will mark the history of Jaime Rodriguez Calderon, Broncoon June 7, 2015, when the people of Nuevo Leon elected him as the first independent candidate in the history of Mexico to win the governorship of Nuevo and this Tuesday, March 15, 2022, when he was arrested for alleged diversion of public resources.

He was born in 1957 in Galeana, Nuevo León, Phytotechnist Agronomist Engineer from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. He is a fan of the UANL Tigres, but his true passion is baseball.

From a very young age, he practiced the king of sports, mainly in two positions: pitcher and shortstop, and his dream was to be a professional baseball player and play in the Major Leagues. He loves his home state team, the Sultanes de Monterrey, and enjoys going to a game at the stadium with a cold beer in hand.

He is the fourth of ten children and is originally from the Pablillo ejido in the municipality of Galeana, 230 kilometers south of the Monterrey metropolitan area.

His love for horses came from when his father and older brother rode freely every day. His favorite: “The Tornado,” a quarter-million-dollar Dutch Friesian.

Badly spoken, talkative and expriista

He served 33 years in the PRI and was a local and federal deputy and mayor of García as a tricolor. The Bronco is clever and witty with his mind. Spooky and talkative. Always wearing boots, a hat and his unmistakable vest.

Father of seven children. He is impulsive and stuck. Only when he visits Mexico City and has an important meeting does he put on a suit and tie. Rodríguez Calderón had a tough childhood with many deficiencies. His mother made cheese that he sold. He also had to sell popcorn at the Llaneros baseball games in his native Pablillo, and even offered jicamas and oranges with chilito. In addition, he worked carrying water, weeding on the farm, picking corn, and taking care of the animals.

Being a licensed governor, he said that as a child, he had a friend, Rubén Darío Bernal, and his parents owned a store and he acknowledged that he came to “carrancearse” (steal) some little geese and Neapolitans, and his friend’s parents took him away. allowed because of the close friendship they shared.

Independent candidate for the presidency of the country in 2018

In 2018, the licensed governor of Nuevo León gained national notoriety by launching himself as an independent candidate for the presidency of the Republic, with the support of social networks.

In the first debate between presidential candidates, he proposed to “mocharle la mano” to the public servant who steals.

“I am going to present an initiative to take the hand of the one who steals, that simpleI will present the initiative to Congress to see if their deputies dare to approve it.

The Bronco he was the fifth candidate for the Presidency endorsed by the INE. However, his candidacy amid controversy, because the electoral body first denied him registration because he did not reach the threshold of necessary support, despite the fact that he had delivered more than two million signatures.

The electoral body only validated 835 thousand 511 signatures and the rest presented inconsistencies. In addition, he found irregularities in his income and expenses.

However, he challenged and, at the last moment, and already started the campaign, the Electoral Court of the Judicial Power of the Federation (TEPJF), revoked the decision of the INE and ordered him to register him because his right to hearing and also pardoned the presentation of the total of more than 866 thousand signatures necessary for registration.

_______________________________

• Putin says Western sanctions are like a ‘declaration of war’
• Ukraine shows on social networks the missile attack on a helicopter: “This is how the Russian occupiers die!” | VIDEO
• Visa and Mastercard suspend operations in Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine
• The strange act of Vladimir Putin between jokes, flowers and stewardesses in full offensive in Ukraine
• British journalists recorded the moment they were fired upon by Russian troops in Ukraine
• War correspondent in Ukraine: “No one imagined that this would happen with such brutality”

Source: Elcomercio

Deshawn