Fernández Noroña: the chaos agent in charge of Mexico’s Senate

by David Agren.

Senate President Gerardo Fernández Noroña pulled up to a party event last Sunday in a swank SUV. The Institutional Revolutionary Party took notice.

“.@fernandeznorona talks like he was part of the people, acts like an authoritarian … but he loves living like a fifí.”

Fernández Noroña predictably exploded, unloading on the PRI with a hyperbolic tirade.

He called them, “A bunch of thieves,” then defended himself saying, “Everything I have I’ve earned through my work and effort. Not like you.” He continued with the usual righteous line that politicians in the ruling coalition take with their opponents, accusing the PRI of having “plundered the country,” and branding them, “Repressors, plunderers, and frauds, as well as traitors to the nation. And that’s putting it mildly.”

Fernández Noroña is what the Canadians might call a “shit disturber” – a person who has long caused mischief in Mexican politics and whose reputation for picking fights and flouting norms precedes him.