More on how disaster in Tabasco could have been prevented

So sad. From the Washington Post:

From 1997 to 2001, at least $3 million was donated to build dikes, raise levees and move poor residents from low-lying areas, according to analysts and independent investigators. But a crescendo of questions about whether the oil money was ever used for the intended projects is raising the possibility that corruption and incompetence might have played as much of a role in the tragedy as historically torrential rains.

The Saint Tomas Association, a nongovernmental organization, has said there was no evidence that two previous Tabasco governors -- Manuel Andrade Díaz and Roberto Madrazo Pintado, who also was a 2006 presidential candidate -- spent the oil money on flood projects.

The group's investigators say they have found proof that flood abatement money was used to pay off contractors who never completed jobs, as well as to fill the gasoline tanks of private vehicles and to buy large quantities of cigarettes, pastries and other sweets.

Mexican legislators have responded angrily, launching investigations and questioning whether the former governors siphoned flood money to their political campaigns.

"Where's the money?" Moisés Dagdug, who represents Tabasco in the lower house of Mexico's Congress, asked in an interview. "My personal perception is that it was not used well. Unfortunately, we have a lot of corruption in our country."