Egidio Torre Cantú, who took over as PRI candidate for governor in Tamaulipas when his brother Rodolfo Torre Cantú was murdered, also assumed as governor today - a whopping six months after the election.
During his election campaign, before his murder, Rodolfo had promised to provide a range of new ambulances to various municipalities in Tamaulipas, and Egidio made this a key event of his assumption, displaying on huge screens a caravan of 42 brand new units.
New ambulances - all well and good, to be sure, but did the actual ambulances really have to be painted in the far from subtle PRI colors?
In Mexico, I was early bemused over how one can quite easily tell the political party in power in each state due to the design of car license plates, who almost invariably are designed in the colors of the respective parties holding power. But really, did Egidio Torre Cantú really need to politicize even ambulances?
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