BROWNSVILLE MAYOR WINS AWARD WHILE TAMAULIPAS GOVERNOR FACES CRIMINAL CHARGES

Mayor Trey Mendez

Brownsville Mayor Trey Mendez was among 19 honored yesterday as "rising leaders" by a group that calls itself NewDEAL(Developing Exceptional American Leaders). 

Perusal of the website revealed that NewDEAL is a "national network of rising state and local leaders who are pro-growth progressives.  The first option on the NewDEAL website is to make a contribution from $10 to $5,000.  

This spring's award winners include the mayors of Dallas, San Antonio and Brownsville, a former mayor of Houston, a school board member in Houston and a former council member in San Antonio.

So, now we have an award winning NewDEAL mayor in an "All-America" city, an award Brownsville won in 2014.

Gov. Garcia Cabeza de Vaca

Meanwhile, just across the river in State of Tamaulipas, Governor  Javier Garcia Cabeza de Vaca, is being charged by the Attorney General of Mexico with criminal cartel connections, money laundering and the massacre of dozens of Central American migrants earlier this year. 

Borderland Beat, the amazingly forthright and graphic border news source, describes the State of Tamaulipas as "a private fiefdom of predatory elite composed of corrupted politicians and public officials who have abused public and private resources to amass hundreds of millions of dollars in personal profit."

Cabeza de Vaca, not declared guilty and still in power, will likely suffer a similar fate to other Mexican officials; Tomas Yarrington, Eugenio Hernandez Flores, Humberto Moreira, Cesar Duarte, Robert Saldoval and Javier Duarte, according to the Beat.