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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 20, 2023 | SaltWireMEXICO CITY, October 20 - Carlos Romero Deschamps, the former longtime and controversial leader of Mexico's oil workers' union and politician, has died at the age of 79, officials confirmed on Friday.
Romero Deschamps, who served four terms as leader of the more than 100,000-member union, one of the largest in Latin America, defended his record, pointing to positive changes for workers that include improvements in pensions and healthcare, as well as salary increases. After assuming leadership of the trade union for Pemex in 1993, he wielded considerable power, keenly aware that taxes levied on the state monopoly accounted for about a third of the federal government's annual budget.
In 2000, Romero Deschamps was accused of helping divert 1.5 billion pesos from Pemex accounts to the presidential campaign of the then PRI contender Francisco Labastida. According to a report in Mexican newspaper Reforma in May 2012, Romero Deschamps owned a $1.5 million British-made yacht that he kept docked in the beach resort of Cancun near his waterfront condo that itself was worth about $1.3 million.
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