Mexican Governor Says His State Is Being Punished for Corruption Inquiry

[Judi Lynn]

By AZAM AHMED and PAULINA VILLEGAS JAN. 8, 2018

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican governor said Monday that the government of President Enrique Peña Nieto was denying his state vital resources in order to squash a corruption investigation that reaches the highest ranks of the nation’s governing party.

The governor, Javier Corral, was promised millions of dollars last December by the federal government to help fill budget shortfalls in his state, Chihuahua, which is in the midst of a financial crisis. But the federal Ministry of Finance has refused to deposit some of the funds, Mr. Corral said at a news conference on Monday in Mexico City.

The governor described a 20-minute meeting he attended with the minister of finance and other officials on Jan. 4 at which the minister himself said Chihuahua would not get the agreed-upon money unless state officials told the minister more about the investigation.

“We were taken by surprise,” Mr. Corral told a crowd of reporters gathered at a hotel. “They could have sugarcoated it, but they said it clearly and outright.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/world/americas/mexico-pena-nieto-corruption-chihuahua.html

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1. And they keep voting the PRI.