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Related: About this forumJaime 'El Bronco' Rodriguez rides into power as governor as Mexico punishes government corruption
The horse-riding, tough-talking Jaime El Bronco Rodriguez survived two assassination attempts from drug cartels as mayor of a suburb of Monterrey.
Now, in an election marred by violence, Mr Rodriguez has won the governors race in the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon, ousting the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) from a key state that includes the business hub of Monterrey.
Mr Rodriguezs election as the first independent governor is seen as a protest against party politics. President Enrique Peña Nietos PRI lost legislative seats in Sundays vote. Mr Rodriguez said after his election: I think in the whole country, this will help the political parties to renew and transform themselves so they can be better.
He said his first action as governor would be to attack corruption. We have to investigate the entire previous government, he said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jaime-el-bronco-rodriguez-rides-into-power-as-governor-as-mexico-punishes-government-corruption-10306075.html
Survived two assassination attempts... What they don't say, and what made him famous and respected, is that in one of those assassination attempts, after having escaped, returned to the fight to rescue his body guards. One of them died in his arms. He has lost one son (murdered) and had a daughter kidnapped....
And he has not given up.
That's why he earned the nickname: "El Bronco" (The untamed)
Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)as he does seem unnaturally courageous, not like a politician at all.
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People close to him undoubtedly are being put through a lot of worry, themselves, as that kind of violence isn't particularly cautious about who gets hurt.
This is someone you'd like to see win over his vicious enemies.
It's good to have learned who he is.
flamingdem
(39,342 posts)you think of it.