Jorge Hank Rhon
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Jorge Hank Rhon is Mexican billionaire businessman, the owner of Mexico's largest and most important sports betting company, Caliente. He is the son of former Mexico City mayor Carlos Hank González.
Employees of his were found guilty of the murder of one editor at the newsweekly Zeta (http://www.zetatijuana.com/) and are widely suspected in the murder of another. His family was publicly linked to drug trafficking by the U.S. government raw intelligence "White Tiger (http://www.narconews.com/Issue25/article29.html) Report", as well as a number of political corruption related charges in Mexico.
He won the Tijuana mayoral race of 2004, beating out PAN candidate Jorge Ramos and thus ending 12 years of allegedly corrupt PAN government in Tijuana.
The proud owner of a large, private zoo, during the mayoral race of 2004, he made a controversial remark that his favorite animal was "woman". He later apologized for the remark.
The first 100 days of his mayorship were plagued by record crime, asassinations, and other problems that during his campaign he promised to fix.
On March 28 2005 the new and modern Bus Route 1-A, that since the last administration has been in a sort of bureaucratical limbo, was officially aproved and is scheduled to start service in late September.nl:Jorge Hank