The Mayor of Tijuana
While many liberals and conservatives are familiar with such Latin American political luminaries as Hugo Chávez, Agosto Pinochet, Fidel Castro and, faintly, Manuel Noriega, there’s a man in office just two miles away from the United States who is likely as sinister, criminal and, potentially, as powerful as all of these men: Jorge Hank Rohn, the mayor of Tijuana.
Josh Kuhn has written a thorough account of this favorite son’s ascent to power for the LA Weekly.
For more on the corruption that leads to the savage murder of hundreds of women in Juarez and the mass exodus of tens of millions of Mexicans (many illegally) to the United States, check out Bordering on Chaos by Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer.
(Thanks, Ejival)