The article compares fragments of his thesis with the works of historian Enrique Krauze and University of New Mexico Professor Linda Hall, among others.
The article says the president copied up to 20 paragraphs from a work by former Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid, Efe news agency reports.
Arístegui and a team of reporters discovered paragraphs in Peña Nieto’s thesis that are identical to these authors’ words, copied without quotation marks.
In 1991, he presented his thesis “Mexican Presidential Rule and Álvaro Obregón,” when he was aged 25.
The article claims 197 of the 682 paragraphs in the thesis contained text that came from at least a dozen authors whom the writer failed to cite or include in his bibliography.
Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/08/22/inenglish/1471870068_039417.html
