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Cannibal Poet found dead in prison cell
Jose Luis Calva, Mexico City’s “Cannibal Poet,” was found dead inside his prison cell this morning. Mexico City authorities are calling the death a suicide, but Calva’s sister claims other inmates were extorting him and threatened to kill him if he didn’t pay them a reported 500 pesos (about $50). He was found strangled with his own belt.
Calvo shocked Mexico earlier this year when police found the remains of his ex-girlfriend frying on his stove and her body parts in the refrigerator. Calvo was a failed screenwriter who sold his horror-infused poetry at informal, bohemian markets around Mexico City.
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By Colin Clark
December 11, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this
Jeremy,
I enjoy reading your articles and posts about Mexico.
One that is sure to be a big story, but that no one has covered so far in Austin (that I know of), is the looming oil crisis in Mexico that Pemex officials have already announced. They’ve basically said that the won’t have any oil to export in less than a decade.
Two big problems will result from the decline of oil production as Mexico’s big oil fields dwindle in the next five years: government revenue from Pemex will also dwindle and the US will have to get oil from elsewhere, as US imports from Mexico dry up.
Pemex provides 40% of the Mexican government’s annual revenue. How on earth are they going to cope with losing all that revenue?
Mexico is the third biggest exporter of oil to the US. How are we going to cope with the loss of Mexican oil? Higher prices.
A related problem I foresee is that as the US economy slows down (and likely slides into recession), there will be fewer job opportunities for immigrant workers from Mexico, so at the same time that the Mexican government’s revenue is going down, the numbers of unemployed people in Mexico will rise.
It would be great to see these looming issues covered in the Statesman and Cox papers.
Adios, Colin Clark