Mexican senator, the head of the Pemex Workers’ Union, is living the lifestyle of the filthy rich while all his relatives have jobs under long term contracts at Pemex, apparently getting paid for doing nada
Carlos Romero Deschamps is living the lifestyle of the filthy rich on a union salary of $2,000 a month. He recently gave his son a $2 million Ferrari and his daughter travels all over the world on private or commercial planes and yachts, staying in luxury hotels. In addition to his union job, Deschamps is also a Mexican senator. If Deschamps is not a poster boy for corruption, I’ll eat my John Deere cap.
From Borderland Beat:
RELATIVES OF ROMERO DESCHAMPS HAVE JOBS WITH PEMEX UNTIL 2999
El Diario de Coahuila
May 6, 2013
One of the most notorious public/private officials in Mexico is Carlos Romero Deschamps, a PRI Senator and also the President of the Pemex Workers' Union. On an official salary of about $2,000.00 a month as union president, Mr. Deschamps, his children and his family have a lifestyle that can conservatively be called luxurious. His daughter, Paulina Romero Deschamps, appeared on Facebook a few months ago describing how she travels all over the world accompanied by her three English bulldogs, Keiko, Boli and Morgancita. They travel on private and commercial airplanes and yachts, and stay in the priciest hotels in Europe and other parts of the world, eating in the best restaurants and drinking wines that cost up to $800.00 per bottle. Her Facebook page shows her posing for photographs and shopping for clothing and accessories (calfskin Birkin bag by Hermes, cost: $12,000.00; limited edition Louis Vuitton Lockit PM Suhali bag, cost: $4,120.00).
Carlos Romero Deschamps' son, Jose Carlos Romero Duran, also lives quite well. A couple of months ago, several newspapers reported that his father gave him a brand new car, an Enzo Ferrari that costs about $2 million. And newspapers, among them Proceso, recently reported that Jose Carlos recently bought two apartments in Miami Beach for $7,550,000.00.
But the benefits enjoyed by Romero Deschamps' other relatives are also impressive. Deschamps was recently elected to his sixth term as president of the Pemex Worker's Union, despite the fact that their own rules do not allow reelection. He was a "plurinominal" candidate for senator, sponsored by EPN and the PRI. This means that his name never appeared on the ballot; rather, he was one of several candidates who were appointed to political office based on the proportion of votes his or her party received in the general election.
One more detail: as a Mexican Senator, he enjoys almost total immunity from prosecution.
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