Mexico's president, under pressure over mansion, reveals $3 million in assets

Thu Nov 20, 2014 3:31am EST

 

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Rivera's explanation and details of the payout spurred ridicule across social media on Wednesday.
Many users plastered jokes over her image, some suggesting
the payout was way out of line with industry standards. Ana de la Reguera, a former Mexican soap star now working in Hollywood, joked on her Twitter account that she never should have left Mexico.
Rivera said her salary proved she could afford the home, but other social media users said this glossed over whether Pena Nieto had questions to answer.
"The problem was never Angelica Rivera's patrimony, but the conflict of interest. Her husband is the one who should be facing up to this," wrote political columnist Jesus Silva-Herzog.
The government canceled the rail contract days before a local news outlet published an investigation into the house.
(Reporting by David Alire Garcia, Noe Torres, Elinor Comlay and Michael O'Boyle; Editing by Simon Gardner and John Stonestreet)