Overview
- Anticorruption chief Raquel Buenrostro outlined how the disaster fund’s rules led to long delays, saying reconstruction could start up to 120 days after an event and resource release alone took about 42 business days.
- Citing Auditoría Superior de la Federación reviews, the briefing described the fund as ineffective, costly, overly bureaucratic, poorly coordinated, and vulnerable to corruption.
- Documented cases included Veracruz failing to exercise or return 531.7 million pesos, Tabasco’s then-governor Andrés Granier using 215.5 million pesos to cover a state deficit, and overspending and poor execution in Plan Nuevo Guerrero.
- The presentation alleged that more than 5,000 million pesos in private donations routed through Fuerza México after the 2017 quakes were never transparently accounted for.
- The government contrasted Fonden’s record with a direct-aid model it says is faster and clearer, pointing to recent responses to hurricanes Otis (2023), John (2024), and Erick (2025) with lower spending and broader coverage.