The Padroneros: a Plot of Business and Betrayals to Take Control of the Pan

El Pais

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“We are the generation of change, but we cannot keep that label just for a generation,” said Jorge Romero, today leader of the National Action Party (PAN), one afternoon in July 2004 in the Teopanzolco auditorium in Cuernavaca, a city in the State of Morelos. There he fought, without success, the National Youth Action Secretariat, the seedbed of the whiteish group from where he shaped his political career. A period of glory for panism that had j…