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Mara Lezama Highlights Four Years of Work as Quintana Roo Ranks Second in Transparency

From El Universal · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama said the state rose from 29th to second nationally in transparency and anti-corruption during her first four years in office.
  • She said the state reduced public debt by 53% without taking on new loans and improved its credit rating by seven levels.
  • Lezama attributed recent criticism to resistance from opponents and a political campaign aimed at weakening the Fourth Transformation project.

Mara Lezama used her fourth government report to present Quintana Roo as a state transformed by financial discipline and improvements in transparency. Speaking in Chetumal, the governor said the state had moved from 29th among Mexico’s 32 states to second in transparency and the fight against corruption.

We were given five

· Mara LezamaLezama contrasted her administration’s available time with previous governments’ six-year terms.

She said public debt, which stood at slightly more than 21 billion pesos, had fallen by 53% without the administration requesting a single new peso in credit. The state’s credit rating also rose seven levels. When Lezama took office in 2022, she recalled, Quintana Roo held the lowest rating cited in the report, BBB-. She attributed the subsequent improvement to the discipline of her administration.

The governor said these results had translated into public works, projects and programs. She contrasted her administration’s progress with earlier governments, which had six years in office but achieved little. “We were given five,” she said, referring to the period available to her administration, and argued that four years could be “a brief chapter, but sufficient for a generation to change course.”

a brief chapter, but sufficient for a generation to change course

· Mara LezamaShe described the achievements reported after four years in office.

Lezama also addressed criticism directed at her in recent weeks. She attributed it to “resistance from those seeking to discredit her administration” and accused opponents of an alleged offensive intended to weaken the Fourth Transformation project. She said the change taking shape in Quintana Roo deeply unsettled “the privileges of the past,” describing the criticism as “a political war orchestrated by the conservative right,” fueled as well by personal ambitions and early calculations that could threaten the movement’s unity.

resistance from those seeking to discredit her administration

· Mara LezamaShe attributed recent criticism to opponents of her government.

She said she would continue delivering results and that continuity would require more work and commitment. The report was presented in Chetumal in the presence of Tourism Secretary Josefina Rodríguez, legislator Gerardo Fernández Noroña and U.S. Consul General in Mérida Justen A. Thomas.

a political war orchestrated by the conservative right

· Mara LezamaShe characterized the criticism as part of an effort to weaken the Fourth Transformation project.
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Originally published by El Universal in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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