Mexican
President Pena Nieto Plagiarized Law Thesis, Report Says
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REUTERS
NYT, AUG. 22, 2016, 12:03 A.M. E.D.T.
MEXICO
CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto plagiarized nearly a third of his
1991 undergraduate law thesis, according to a report published on Sunday by one
of Mexico's leading investigative journalists.
Of
the 682 paragraphs that made up the 200-page thesis, titled 'Mexican
Presidentialism and Alvaro Obregon,' 197, or 28.9 percent, were found to be
plagiarized, the report said.
The
article and accompanying video were published on the website of journalist
Carmen Aristegui, whose investigative team revealed in 2014 that Pena Nieto's
wife was in the process of acquiring a luxury home from a government
contractor.
The
Casa Blanca scandal, as it came to be known, dealt a major blow to the
reputation of Pena Nieto, whose poll numbers have recently hit all-time lows
over perceptions he and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) have failed
to stamp out rampant crime and corruption.
In
a statement, government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez sought to play down the
accusation of plagiarism, instead calling the omissions "style
errors." He added that Pena Nieto met all the requirements needed to
graduate as a lawyer from Panamerican University.
In
2015, Aristegui was dismissed by her employer, MVS Radio, after it accused her
and her team of offering, without prior authorization, the broadcaster's name
and funding for a new platform for investigative journalism called Mexicoleaks.
Aristegui
argued her dismissal was politically motivated.
(Reporting
by Gabriel Stargardter; Editing by Michael Perry)
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