Mexico: Gordillo SNTE President "for life"

Elba Esther Gordillo, head of the 1.3 million member National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) and easily Mexico's most corrupt labor leader, was named president of the SNTE "indefinitely" on Saturday by the her personally appointed National Political Committee. Gordillo was president of the PRI before breaking with the party during the 2006 presidential campaign when she formed her own party, PANAL, to siphon votes from PRI candidate Roberto Madrazo. She also served as
head of the PRI Congressional delegation during the first years of
Vicente Fox's presidency. During her tenure in Congress, Gordillo managed the selection of all nine members of the Federal Electoral Commission (IFE) that accredited Calderon's victory, and she was reportedly responsible for much of the fraud that led to Caldernon assuming the presidency. As payback, Calderon appointed a close relative to an important position in the Secretary of Education, and privatized the ISSSTE (Institute for Services and Social Security for State Workers) pension funds, putting billions of pesos under Gordillo's personal control. The widely unpopular Gordillo has come under attack from dissidents within her own union since the ISSSTE reform. Dissidents in at least three groups within the union threatened to remove Gordillo as president and force an outside audit
of the union's finances. In response, Gordillo's supporters, who
occupy the top rungs of the union administration, appointed her
president for life.
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