Monday, August 22, 2016

Media: Mexican President committed plagiarism in his thesis – Polish Radio

The article was posted Sunday on the website of one of the leading Mexican investigative journalists, Carmen Aristegui. Her team of reporters in 2014 revealed that the wife of Enrique Pena Niety going to buy a luxury home state of the company.

According to material future president of Mexico was to prevent fraud during his studies at the Faculty of Law in 1991. Journalists found that at 682 paragraphs that make up the work entitled “presidential system in Mexico Alvaro Obregon” until 197, or 28.9 per cent., Is plagiarism.


 
 


 
scandal hurt the stock price the president, have recently reached their lowest level thanks to popular opinion, that Pena Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) failed to control violence in the country and fight corruption.

In a statement, government spokesman Eduardo Sanchez tried to downplay the situation, calling copied parts of thesis president “stylistic errors”. He also stressed that the work of the scientific head of state met all the criteria required by the law faculty of the University of the Americas.

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In 2015, Carmen Aristegui was fired from the radio station MVS Radio. The employer accused the journalist and her team is that offered without the consent of the broadcasting its brand and resources to establish an online platform for investigative journalism, Mexicoleaks. Aristegui says that her dismissal from work was politically motivated.

PAP, kk

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