I just read something interesting about Ignacio Peregrín Schüll, Belinda’s younger brother. It turns out that five years ago, he tried to get into politics as a deputy candidate in Mexico City, but he lost the election. What’s curious is that while he was working at the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs coordinating international cooperation programs, he was also a partner in a cleaning company that allegedly had government contracts. That sounds like a pretty obvious conflict of interest, doesn’t it?

Peregrín Schüll reported a salary of just over 13,000 pesos per month in his 2019 asset declaration, but here’s the strange part: his CV said he had a bachelor’s degree in Law; however, he doesn’t appear in the official register of professionals. The investigation found that he was only just studying the degree at a university in Veracruz. After losing the 2021 election with just over 51,000 votes and around 22% of the votes in his district, he met with Sandra Cuevas, the then-mayor, at a restaurant to talk about “joint proposals.” Since then, Ignacio Peregrín has disappeared from the public scene.

I don’t know about you, but Peregrín Schüll’s case has all the elements of a classic Mexican political story: promises, inconsistencies in the CV, and strategic meetings after electoral defeats. Pretty typical, right?