translated from Spanish: Clara Luz apologizes for lying about not knowing the NXIVM leader

Morena’s candidate for the Governor of Nuevo León, Clara Luz Flores, apologized for denying that she had met the leader of the NXIVM sect, Keith Raniere, convicted of trafficking and sexual exploitation.
“I made a mistake saying I didn’t know him and I apologize. My mistake was not to publicly accept that moment in my life when I sought help through a course,” the candidate said through a video.
She admitted that during her time as mayor of the municipality of Escobedo she had faced situations such as 13 attacks, the kidnapping and torture of her son, and the implantation of a bomb while pregnant.
After the end of that period, he sought ‘professional help’, before which he was recommended a course that had taken 10 thousand people and which he agreed to try.
“Eventually I met with its founder,” he said, as well as various opinion leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians and artists. “Even dalai Lama himself as he has appeared in many videos and photos, because there were always cameras recording.”
“The founder turned out to be a criminal, but it’s unfair for my rivals to make me carry the crimes of an international criminal who is now in jail,” he said.
Put yourself in context: Clara Luz Flores, Morena’s NL candidate, met with NXIVM leader, although she refused to meet him
Luz Flores explained that in her tenure as mayor she opted for a security model of zero corruption, protection of women from family violence, among other actions that earned the municipality one of the five safest in the country.
“I have enough sensitivity and the guts to acknowledge my mistakes, but I also have the strength to learn from them: I have learned and recognize that I fell as we have all done and, like all of them, I now rise.”
It should be remembered that since 2019 Clara Luz was linked to NXIVM; however, she denied knowing the founder personally, although she agreed to have taken courses from such an organization ‘as a personal overcoming’.
It was until March 2021 that the opponent candidate of the morenista, by the PRI-PRD coalition, Adán de la Garza, showed a video showing Luz Flores chatting with Keith Raniere.
“Clara Luz Flores has publicly and systematically denied knowing this offender and being part of this sect; however, the information in my possession today shows the opposite and is irrefutable,” De la Garza said at the time.
In the video presented you can see the candidate at a meeting with Raniere where they discuss politics, in particular about the populist measures of governments.
Context on NXIVM in Mexico
Keith Raniere, leader of NXIVM, 60, was convicted in June 2019 of sex trafficking, extortion, organized crime, threats and child abuse, among other crimes.
He was arrested in Mexico in 2018 after being accused of running a pyramid system composed of a teacher and slaves, in which women were marked with their initials as if they were won, and forced to have sex with him.
In the country, workshops of the organization were held, known under the acronym ESP (Executive Success Programs o Executive success programs), which were led by Emiliano Salinas Occelli, one of the sons of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Previously Animal Politics had found that Mario Delgado, national president of the Morena party, was part of the Society of Protectors (SOP) an alternate organization of Executive Success Program.
Raniere’s teachings on virility and control over women were summarized in the curriculum. 
Delgado admitted soon after that he had taken the courses, but noted that he was tricked into doing so and that he was not involved in any illegal acts.
“There is a huge difference between being tricked into taking a course and participating in a criminal network,” he said.
The above was similar to what Clara Luz said in her video: “What my rivals do is cowardly, because to win votes they confuse who the real criminal is and who the people who just took a course are.”
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Original source in Spanish