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 Editorials | At Issue | August 2006 
Congressman Gonzalez Schmall is a "Liar and a Coward": Sahagun
 EFE
| | Mexican first lady Marta Sahagun speaks to the press as her son, Manuel Bribiesca stands behind her in the city of Leon, Mexico on May 6, 2005. First lady Marta Sahagun lashed back at a congressional committee that demanded a criminal investigation into allegations that her two sons flew presidential jets to a government house to seal illegal real estate deals totaling more than US$30 million (24 million). (AP/Mario Armas) |
Mexico City, July 28 - Marta Sahagun declared that congressman Jesus Gonzalez Schmall is "a liar and a coward, because his remarks about her have only been lies and speculation. She reminded the congressman that "his immunity has limits" and she will wait for him to confirm his accusations when he is out of office."
She demanded that the legislator present proof of his declarations about alleged traffic of influence by her sons, Manuel and Jorge Alberto Bribiesca Sahagun, or else apologize.
"Not satisfied with damaging the image and honor of my sons, now he has aimed his dirty words at me. Mr. Gonzalez Schmall, your immunity has limits. I will wait for your immunity to end," she said.
In a message she gave in the Venustiano Carranza Room at the Official Residence of Los Pinos, Marta Sahagun made the congressman from the Convergencia Party responsible for any physical or moral harm that her children or any member of her family might suffer.
The wife of President Vicente Fox said she would continue to defend the good name of her family within the framework of the law and until the last consequences. "Gonzalez Schmall lies because he hides behind anonymous testimony. His behavior has been cowardly in a regrettable unworthy process brought about by a handful of legislators."
This was Sahagun's response to statements by Jesus Gonzalez, Chairman of the Congressional Investigative Committee of business carried out by Construcciones Prácticas, a company linked to her sons, the Bribiesca Sahagun brothers Manuel and Jorge Alberto, and now with her.
Marta Sahagun said that the congressman thinks that he is protected by immunity and can go around acting with impunity and without the slightest sense of responsibility and honesty. "The lion thinks everyone else is just like him", she told him.
She asserted that if anyone has a lot of explaining to do about traffic of influence, it is Gonzalez Schmall himself, who has been judge and jury in the case of the Bribiesca Sahagun brothers.
She added that after a year of investigations, they have not been able to prove anything "because there is nothing there," so she trusts that the proper institutions will uncover the truth about who is who.
She reiterated that the process followed by the Special Congressional Committee was unconstitutional and illegal, and therefore as a citizen, she demands that the acts committed by this committee and by Gonzalez Schmall observe the law.
Marta Sahagun Assures that the Process Against her Sons was Illegal
EFE
Mexico City, July 29 - Marta Sahagun considers that the presentation of the report drafted by the Special Congressional Committee that investigated Construcciones Prácticas - linked to her sons, the Bribiesca Sahagun brothers, concludes an unconstitutional process.
Interviewed after launching a call for nominations for the 2006 National Volunteer Prize, the wife of President Vicente Fox repeated her position about the case involving her boys Manuel and Jorge Alberto Bribiesca Sahagun.
"It is simply a process that has concluded, a process, as I have said, that has been unconstitutional from the start. They are not going to find anything where there is nothing, so if the congressmen finished their work according to them, that's fine," she said.
Asked about the possibility that the Committee report that will be handed over to Congress shortly will be endorsed over to the next congress, she remarked that that is up to congress.
About what she expects from the congressmen coming into office next September, Sahagun said, "I hope that do a great job for the country, that is what I hope for; it is what I want for my country, that they do a great job for the country."
Regarding the call for nominations for the 2006 National Volunteer Prize, she said that the goal is to recognize outstanding volunteers and to call on society for increasingly more hands joined in favor of the needy.
In the Adolfo Lopez Mateos Room at the Official Residence of Los Pinos, she added that everyone should be willing to come together to build a great, strong nation of solidarity.
"In today's Mexico, you can perceive more clearly what can be accomplished when the most appreciated values such as the spirit of solidarity, generosity and service become actions that are translated into equal opportunities," she added.
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Marta Sahagún Asegura Que Fue Ilegal el Proceso Contra Sus Hijos
Notimex
México, 29 Jul - Marta Sahagún consideró que con la entrega del informe de la Comisión Especial de la Cámara de Diputados que investigó a la empresa Construcciones Prácticas -a la que se vincula con sus hijos, los hermanos Bribiesca Sahagún- termina un proceso anticonstitucional.
Entrevistada luego de lanzar la convocatoria para el Premio Nacional al Voluntariado 2006, la esposa del presidente Vicente Fox reiteró su postura en torno al caso de sus hijos Manuel y Jorge Alberto Bribiesca Sahagún.
"Simplemente es un proceso que terminó, es un proceso, como yo lo dije, que siempre fue anticonstitucional, no van a encontrar nunca nada donde no hay, así que ya los legisladores, según ellos, cumplieron su trabajo, qué bueno", dijo.
Sobre la posibilidad de que dicho informe que la Comisión Especial entregará en breve a la Comisión Permanente del Congreso de la Unión también se turne a la Legislatura entrante, comentó que eso es responsabilidad de los legisladores.
De lo que espera de los legisladores que entrarán en funciones en septiembre próximo, Sahagún mencionó: "espero que hagan un gran trabajo a favor del país, es lo que espero; es lo que quiero para mi país, que hagan un gran trabajo a favor de mi país".
En torno a la convocatoria al Premio Nacional al Voluntariado 2006, expuso que el objetivo es reconocer a las y los voluntarios destacados y hacer un llamado a la sociedad para que las manos que hoy están unidas en favor de los necesitados sean cada vez más.
En el Salón Adolfo López Mateos de la Residencia Oficial de Los Pinos, agregó que todos deben tener su mejor voluntad para estar unidos en la construcción de una nación grande, fuerte y solidaria.
"En este México de hoy se percibe con mayor claridad lo que se puede lograr cuando los valores más apreciados como el espíritu solidario, la generosidad y el servicio, se convierten en acciones que se traducen en igualdad de oportunidades", añadió. |
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