<blockquote>Until then, Mr. Moreira had spent his career in government. In 2005, when he became governor of Coahuila, on the Texas border, he embarked on ambitious spending programs. They were unsustainable, said Javier Garza, a journalist in Torreón, a city in Coahuila, but “they contributed to creating a network of political patronage.”</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/world/americas/a-former-mexican-governor-is-arrested-but-not-by-his-own-country.html">A Former Mexican Governor Is Arrested, but Not by His Own Country - The New York Times</a>.