| Tabasco Ex-Governor's Expensive Taste Puts Corruption in Spotlight Anahi Rama - Reuters | |
| go to original June 10, 2013 |
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Former governor of Tabasco state, Andres Granier (revoluciontrespuntocero.com)
MEXICO CITY - A Mexican politician who is suspected of embezzlement and brags about Beverly Hills shopping sprees and his 1,000 shirts is jeopardizing President Enrique Pena Nieto's ability to stamp out corruption and keep opposition backing for his economic plans.
The corruption accusations swirling around Andres Granier, governor of Tabasco state until his term ended in December exemplify the kind of abuses that marked the president's Institutional Revolutionary Party's long hold on power.
If the PRI fails to hold Granier to account over a black hole in his state's finances, the pact Pena Nieto forged with the opposition leaders when he took office in December may collapse.
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