Tamaulipas recently "celebrated" the first 100 days of government of Egidio Torre Cantú, who became the PRI candidate following the murder of his brother Rodolfo.
According to detractors of the government, there is little to celebrate: Apparently, the government cannot present one single achievement to boast of, and is even struggling to pay its employees back pay, some back to January
The blame cannot exactly be put on the shoulders of Torre Cantú alone. According to the state's secretary of finance, Alfredo González Fernández, the previous government of Eugenio Hernández Flores, also of PRI, left the state with a debt of at least 14 billion pesos (!), while reportedly cashing in on lucrative building contracts awarded to Tohesa, a company of which Hernández Flores is a partner.
Yet while its politicians line their pockets, Tamaulipas is teetering on being a "failed state," following the decades of misrule by the PRI.
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