Governor Layda Sansores warned that the federal funding cuts to Campeche could reach three billion pesos in 2026, which, in her own words, would cause a financial “paralysis,” a catastrophe, the final blow to the state’s development.
And she said this without, as usual, uttering anathemas, condemnations, complaints, reproaches, or accusations about the mistreatment we receive from the federal administration. On the contrary, she continues to lavish praise on President Claudia Sheinbaum, even though she is the one making the decisions that will harm us so much.
This is certainly part of the political inconsistency of the Campeche governor, her contradictions, and her biased view of reality. She accuses her predecessors of having left our state in complete neglect, but forgets that the so-called 4T (Fourth Transformation) has been in power for seven years, that she herself has been in office for more than four, and that neither she nor her party have worsened the situation in our state.
The reality is that this looming financial catastrophe is just one more of the problems we will have to face, caused by this failed, disastrous, and rapacious state administration. But there are also serious, very serious, security problems.
We are ranked fifth nationally among the safest states, but with manipulated figures. If all the complaints filed by citizens with the State Attorney General’s Office were registered and reported, the crime rate would have increased considerably, and the National Council of the National Public Security System would already have us among the states considered “hot spots.”
In the areas of health and education, we are also failing miserably. There are no medicines in the hospitals, no operating rooms, and no specialists to meet the demand for services from the population entitled to them. And this is to say nothing of the Campeche residents who lack social security.
In education, we have lost our way. Schools are in deplorable condition, the installation of computer equipment to provide internet access to all schools has been halted, and higher education institutions have become indoctrination centers for new Morena party recruits.
The governor’s discourse regarding this lag in all sectors is repetitive and lacks proposals to change the situation. She says we’re “36th in GDP,” but she doesn’t mention that this is because the current administration eliminated support programs for productive sectors, and there are no marketing programs for harvests of corn, honey, mango, watermelon, tomato, chili peppers, sorghum, and other agricultural products. As a result, farmers are at the mercy of middlemen who take their produce to register it in other states, primarily Yucatán, thus contributing to those states’ GDP growth.
To justify this serious crisis, the governor blames “the damn oil,” the “stupid formula,” and the “mysterious beings” who plan the allocation of federal funds, but she fails to mention that these figures have been part of the current administration for seven years. They’ve had the opportunity to change these unfair formulas, but they haven’t.
And why haven’t they? Because the governor hasn’t demanded it. Because the federal deputies and senators from Morena didn’t want to, and because the President of the Republic—and her corrupt predecessor—didn’t want to either. So whose fault is it?
As adept at playing the victim, instead of defending herself and counterattacking as she usually does, Sansores San Román laments that “this year they’re going to take almost 2.2 billion pesos from us, or more, it could reach 3 billion, and for us, who only have 6 billion pesos to make decisions with, because the rest is tied to universities and municipalities, we would be working with 3 billion, with half the budget. Let’s see when everyone starts receiving half to do their work or their tasks; we could be paralyzed. That’s what they don’t understand, because that was the reason for having debt, a very reasonable debt that we can perfectly well pay.”
She boasts that the finances are sound, but conveniently forgets to mention the lack of public works, social programs, and support for productive sectors. She also flaunts an honesty that neither she nor any of her collaborators possess:
“People are struck by how such a modest state can have such healthy finances, and that’s something we’re proud of: poor but dignified, well-organized, well-disciplined. We don’t steal, we don’t spend more than we have, and what we borrow is because we know we can repay it.”
Source: tribunacampeche
