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Friday, May 21, 2021

Politician From Yucatán Who Spent 5 Years in a US Prison for Drug Trafficking Is Running for Mayor

"El Choclo" for Borderland Beat

Convicted drug trafficker Clemente Julián Cano is the Morena party candidate for mayor in Chumayel. The mayoral hopeful gave a rambling interview to reporter in response to allegation

National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party candidate for mayor in a small Yucatán town has life experience of which few other political aspirants can boast — not that they would likely be inclined to do so.

Clemente Julián Cano Chan, candidate for mayor in the municipality of Chumayel, has spent time in a United States prison for drug trafficking, according to a report published by the newspaper Excélsior.

Citing publicly available United States documents, Excélsior said Cano was charged in February 2015 with entering the U.S. illegally and trafficking cocaine and heroin.

The newspaper said he pleaded guilty and was subsequently incarcerated in the Snake River Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison in eastern Oregon. Cano was reportedly released early from prison in 2020 due to good behavior.

Excélsior said the candidate was also arrested on three separate occasions in 2012 and 2014 for crossing illegally into the United States.

Prison records proving Clemente Cano-Chan's inmate status

Contacted on Tuesday by the news magazine Proceso, Cano initially denied that he was imprisoned in the U.S. but subsequently appeared to accept that he had been.

“Of course I wasn’t [in prison]. … If I were guilty, I wouldn’t be speaking with you at this time,” he told a reporter during a telephone conversation.

Cano also said it was mala onda — not cool — for a newspaper to have published a report saying that he was imprisoned on drug trafficking charges but quickly corrected himself and said that it was in fact buena onda (cool) because the media attention amounted to “free publicity,” which is “good for the municipality.”

When it was put to him that he was released from prison last year for good behavior, the candidate responded:

“Well, they didn’t tell me that. That can’t be the case. … The people that publish that should have informed themselves with greater certainty.”

However, in rambling remarks, Cano corrected himself again, saying that the media can do whatever it likes

 “People who have money can do as they please with their money. We’re in a free and sovereign country, … there is free expression. … One can opine or say what one really thinks, … he can’t be censored, we’re not in Venezuela. I very much respect your comments, your question, your opinion, thank you very much,” he said before hanging up.

Located about 80 kilometers southeast of Mérida, Chumayel is one of 106 municipalities in Yucatan, all of which will elect new mayors and other local officials on June 6. Chumayel is currently governed by the conservative National Action Party, which is also in office at the state level.

Sources: Excelsior; Proceso; MND

25 comments:

  1. MEXICOS A CIRCUS LOL

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    1. 1:02 of course, Mr Chan never flooded the US with airbuses full of cocaine for years like oliver north NSA or felix ismael rodriguez CIA...
      Let the best man win and shut your yoyo.

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    2. 1:02 and you want mexicans to send you all the clowns Bozo. Jalale hasta que tihogues

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  2. Who the hell is is his hair stylist from frowed out in prison to comable repected candidate 😂

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    1. Mustache kicks ass, tho

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    2. 7:34 pos a güebo, blackest black straight from Japan.

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  3. Should open up a pizza shop

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  4. What's the big deal?

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  5. His Big ambitions to enrich himselfike many before him might get him killed this time.


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  6. Sounds like a tweaker
    Cant admit wrong, then admits it,
    then just rambles on
    What is with these poor people that elect this type of person ?
    only 5 yrs i prison
    maybe he ratted and that whats they mean by Good Behavoir


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    1. Only cartel-backed candidates don't get killed. So there is only the choice between the devil and Satan.

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    2. 8:23 the cheerleaders changing tune after jan 6 to please the Unpresieented turd that won't flush away after all the fuckups must have opened a franchise in their prisons for profit for mexican assets, suspected since La Mencha emreged to take over the mexican Meth Franchise.

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  7. What do you expect 🇲🇽 has been that way for YEARS and I doubt it will CHANGE soon..
    Judy like the Spaniard GENERAL that sold half of 🇲🇽, exiled at Cuba for a few years came back to Mexico and was named president.. Santana I BELIEVE his last name was? Yeal

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    1. Jose Antonio Lopez de Santana also kicked ass once in a while, at Battle of Angostura and unforgettable El Alamo, but he he did not engineer the War for half of México that takes some special kind of evil, like the war oN drugs.

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  8. morenas Best and brightest. Chespirito.

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    1. I'm convinced this is Dr Sol.

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    2. 9:56 shame on you for using Don Porfirio Diaz Mori photo to appear to be something else.
      Could you Blackjack?

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  9. Good for him his changing his life around

    LoL yea right

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  10. This could make for a great reality series

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  11. He is not a felony in Mexico

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  12. Morena protects drug dealers

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  13. See kids, when you use a Flobee to cut your hair, bad things happen. You think it's a great hairstyle, then the meth ruins it! -h

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  14. He looks like a triste Chihuahua , just look at his eyes and looks like my primas Chihuahua , seriouse

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