New Travel Minister Announced

President Enrique Peña Nieto named Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, daughter of a former Guerrero governor and niece of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, to be his Minister of Tourism. A 40-year-old graduate of the law school at the Universidad Iberaméricana, member of the Chamber of Deputies, the minister has been active in politics and government all her adult life.  She also has lived amid controversy. Another uncle, Raul Salinas de Gortari, was accused of ordering the murder of her father and spent several years in prison. Her uncle Carlos spent several years living in Ireland in self-imposed exile. Now back in Mexico, he is rumored to be an advisor to the new president.

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Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers