"Why is this mechanism used? It needs to be clarified. Because if that money came from those criminal organizations who do what they do, we don't have reason to support a narco political team for the next six years," the Catholic leader charged.During his Sunday homily, published on Monday by the newspaper Vanguardia, Vera said that the team of Enrique Peña Nieto is influenced by organized crime:
"Look what we're gambling on. A Secretary of the Treasury, in the first two or three years of President Calderon's administration, said: 'Things are so bad that the next president of Mexico could be a narco president.'"
Vera denounced the presidential election as marked by an excess of illegal public resources and fraudulent practices:
"We can't use the excuse of a false social peace to endorse a process full of irregularities and even criminal offenses such as resorting to money laundering, whose origin they want to hide in dark processes that cover more serious crimes, and which leads to faking a judicial process and applying weak sanctions, as if it had to do with minor crimes."Spanish original