More scandal in Coahuila: Did Moreira hold back funds for security?

More trouble still: Ex-Governor Humberto Moreira Valdés of Coahuila was now also denounced by the Secretariado Ejecutivo del Sistema Nacional de Seguridad Pública (SESNSP), an organ of the Interior Ministry, to the Superior Auditor for allegedly having held back federal funds for security destined for several Coahuila mayors.

The mayors of Torreón, Acuña and Monclova denied yesterday that they had ever complained of this, though according to SESNSP they had earlier complained of just that.

Esthela Damián, PRD federal deputy and head of the chamber's  Comisión de Vigilancia de la Auditoría Superior de la Federación is demanding an extraordinary audit. The head of PRI's parliamentary group Francisco Rojas said the Moreira's opponents were "putting together a barrage of attacks with half-truths," not exactly a forceful response.

Even the influential Joaquín López-Dóriga, ever close to power and usually well in the know, asks in today's column, entitled "Falsifying Documents," "How will everyone come out of this?"

26 mayors murdered in three years

Twenty-six mayors were murdered in the past three years in Mexico.
Here's a graphic from El Universal that details who they were, and where it happened.

Quintana Roo: PRI governor left with a 600 percent increase in debt

The PRI's Roberto Borge Angulo won the 2010 gubernatorial elections in Quintana Roo, and given the explosion of the state's debt under the previous government, it should hardly be a surprise: Félix González Canto, the former governor, left the state with a debt 600 percent higher than when he came to power in 2005.

(González Canto, to recall, is the one with a just extraordinary luck in state lotteries)

According to PAN, who is conducting an investigation in the local legislature, most of the debt stems from a massive expansion of the state bureaucracy. The known debt so far went from 1.2 to 8 billion pesos.