Gregorio Sanchez, who resigned as mayor of Cancun to run for the governorship of Quintana Roo, is in prison awaiting trial on charges that he accepted bribes from drug smugglers. His supporters insist that it is all politics. Sanchez belongs to the left-of-center Party of the Democratic Revolution, opposed by the Party of the Institutionalized Revolution and the National Action Party.
People in the hospitality industry worry that all this may be used by rivals to smear Cancun’s image. A former Quintana Roo governor (the state also includes Cozumel and the Maya Riviera) recently was extradited to the United States, where authorities have charged him with money laundering for the narcotics trade.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting from Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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