Tijuana, October 19.—Although he has been out of the PRI for almost six years, although his alliance with Ricardo Monreal has long been public, and he is currently a member of the Morena party in San Lázaro, Fernando Castro Trenti's recent return to Baja California is causing a stir. Between speculation and suspicion, the curiosity of the political class has been piqued. The question is: Does the devil know more because he's old than because he's the devil?
Fernando Castro Trenti was nicknamed "El Diablo" (The Devil) during his childhood—from his mother, for being mischievous, according to his own account, and later passed on to his sisters—and it transcended his public life during his nearly 40-year tenure in the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), from where he rose to the highest spheres of local politics. He even ran for governor in 2013 and was defeated by Francisco Vega de la Madrid, the last PAN state governor of Baja California.
