Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama Under Scrutiny Following Records of 97 Private Flights
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Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama Under Scrutiny Following Records of 97 Private Flights
CHETUMAL, Mexico — Quintana Roo Governor Mara Lezama Espinosa has taken at least 97 private flights on executive aircraft dating back to her tenure as Mayor of Cancún, according to aviation logs and migratory data from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) accessed online. The records show that Lezama’s frequent use of luxury air travel began while she was leading the municipality of Benito Juárez (Cancún). During her Mayoral administra…
In 2021, as Head of Government of the CDMX, Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed Paola Félix Díaz, her Secretary of Tourism, for travelling on a private plane to the wedding of Santiago Nieto in Guatemala. She then warned: "No one can get on private planes here." Already as President of the Republic, in May 2025, she issued a decalogue for Morena where she asked to conduct herself "with honesty, humility and simplicity" and expressly ordered "not to trav…
Mara Lezama went from being a radio announcer and television presenter to traveling on multimillion-dollar private flights as a public official, whose income does not correspond to her expenses abroad. A new investigation offers details about the Quintana Roo governor's financial declarations, which do not align with her lifestyle, far removed from the austerity preached by Morena, the party to which she belongs. “Mara Lezama is a prime example…
The 69 private flights used by the governor of Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama, would have an estimated value of about 20 million pesos, a figure that would be equivalent to approximately 13 years of their current salary, according to a calculation published by a media outlet. The investigation estimates that about one million dollars the cost of transfers made from Cancun, Toluca and Felipe Angeles International Airport (AIFA) to different destinatio…
President Claudia Sheinbaum asked to verify the information on the private flights attributed to the governor of Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama, before issuing a position and establishing responsibilities. REFORMA Group published that Lezama would have made 97 private flights, the cost of which would be about 20 million pesos. The quintanaroan president has pointed out that some of these transfers were covered with personal resources. “Yesterday the …
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