Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Mexico's largest opposition party stepped up pressure on President Felipe Calderon to fire his agriculture minister, threatening to delay proposed legislation, including a plan to revamp the state oil company.
Unless Calderon removes Alberto Cardenas, he risks having his plans ``bogged down,'' said Hector Padilla, a lawmaker from the Institutional Revolutionary Party and head of the agriculture committee. The party says Cardenas failed to win bigger agricultural subsidies and restrict imports of U.S. sugar and corn, depressing prices for farmers in Mexico.
This story is very significant because when this particular party is unhappy, Mexico's government is under a lot of pressure to fix the problem. In this particular case the agriculture minister seemed to not be doing a very good job at controlling many of the jobs he was hired to do.
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