On 9 August, we published a story that referred to Aurora Pierdant, a Mexican lawyer. We stated that in 2011 she had been fired by the Mexican state oil firm, Pemex, for administrative negligence and had been banned from the public sector for one year. We however omitted to state that throughout this process, Ms Pierdant had continuously (and rightly) asserted her innocence, and that both the dismissal and the ban were later overturned by an appeal court, such that her name was cleared and her unblemished record restored with no ongoing suspicion about her legal practice or expertise.
We apologise to her for having published an incomplete history, which we accept seriously misrepresented her professional status. We have now removed the article from our website (“Mexican first lady’s Florida home owned by potential government contractor”:
