Highlights of Local Governance

As long as we're on the subject of local law enforcement: 6 million pesos (a little less than half a million dollars) transferred from the federal government to the municipality of Gómez Palacio have disappeared, without anyone being able to account for their whereabouts. The money was to be spent on refurbishing the city's jail. The state of a local jail should never be a mere afterthought, but the condition of the Gómez jail is especially important, given that 19 prisoners were killed there in a jailhouse riot this summer.