This article by Obed Rosas originally appeared in the October 10, 2025 edition of Sin Embargo. The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Mexico Solidarity Project.
Mexico City. Campeche Governor Layda Sansores “expropriated three of your plots of land. Now don’t come to me with that nonsense, they’re not yours. One belonged to your mother and two were yours,” responded publicist Carlos Alazraki to Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas during a chat on Atypical Te Ve —a media outlet that has become a showcase for the right—when the PRI leader sought to address her criticism of his multimillion-dollar assets. “Alito” maintained in response, as he does every time the subject comes up, that the land belongs to “private individuals.”
Later in that same conversation, Moreno Cárdenas insisted that he was a “political victim of persecution,” as is often assumed whenever he is questioned about the corruption allegations against him. In a rhetorical question, he asked Alazraki if he knew what they had done in response to the attack.
“So what did we do?,” Alejandro Moreno asked.
“What did you do? Buy another one,” Alazraki replied, interrupting him with mocking laughter.
“…to say that we will report any lies or slander at an international level.”
This was one of the conversations and interviews in which “Alito” Moreno Cárdenas has displayed his annoyance and outbursts of rage whenever he has been questioned about his multimillion-dollar assets, for which he has been accused of illicit enrichment and faces a request for his immunity to be stripped.
Just at the end of September, the Campeche government issued a declaration of expropriation for three properties linked to Moreno Cárdenas, one of which belongs to his mother, Yolanda Mercedes Cárdenas Montero. The properties cover an area of 70,000 square meters, but “Alito” maintains that they belong to private individuals and that expropriating them seeks to lay the foundations for the “Venezuelan model.”
On October 7, Moreno Cárdenas appeared visibly agitated in an interview with Carmen Aristegui, attempting to evade the journalist’s questions about his properties in Campeche. The PRI leader claimed that all his assets are legal and the result of 30 years of work, and when questioned about the corruption allegations, he responded, clearly annoyed:
“[I’ll answer] when you prove to me that you’re the Public Ministry, Carmen,” to which the journalist responded: “No, I’m an interviewer,” at which point the PRI member reiterated: “That’s why, then, I’ve already told you, I’ve already told you that my assets are public because they’re in my asset declarations. If you want to look at my asset declarations, they’re public, I’ve published them.”
Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas owns apartments in Polanco and properties in the Country Club, abroad, as well as in Champotón, Campeche, a state where he also owns a mansion in the Lomas del Castillo private community valued at more than 130 million pesos and with a household goods valued at nearly 50 million pesos, assets that have been investigated since 2022 by the Campeche Prosecutor’s Office.
In his 2021 asset declaration, submitted to the Chamber of Deputies, Moreno Cárdenas reported owning 11 plots of land, all purchased in cash between 2012 and 2021, for a total of 2 million 938 thousand 848 pesos, and two houses, purchased in 2014 and 2016, also in cash, for a value of 9 million 714 thousand 610 pesos.
He reported those same properties through 2024, although without the amounts. As a Senator, Moreno Cárdenas claims to own neither property nor vehicles.
A week after speaking with Aristegui, Moreno Cárdenas gave an interview to Azucena Uresti on Radio Fórmula, where he again starred in an episode like the ones mentioned above when he was questioned about his assets, particularly the land that was expropriated from him in Campeche. There, the PRI leader exploded again, claiming that the information was false.
In response, Uresti told him, “I’m not accusing you, Alejandro, I’m not accusing you,” to which the PRI member replied that the journalist was “reading a false, slanderous article.”
“I ask you to invite me so that you give me the right to clarify what this is, because it’s totally false,” the politician said. He also asked not to “lend myself to this campaign the government is waging to try to change the narrative. Morena is destroying this country; they’re a bunch of cynics and corrupt people.”
“Alito” has been questioned about the true value of his properties, especially after images of the interior of a mansion he owns in the Lomas del Castillo neighborhood of Campeche City were released.
The Campeche Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office accuses Moreno Cárdenas of the alleged embezzlement of 83 million pesos. The first time the Campeche Prosecutor’s Office requested the revocation of “Alito” Moreno’s constitutional immunity was on August 17, 2022, when that institution, then headed by Renato Sales Heredia, initiated the same procedure before the federal Chamber of Deputies, based on the presumption that the national leader of the tricolor party had committed the crimes of illicit enrichment, embezzlement, misuse of powers, tax evasion, and money laundering during his term as Governor of that entity.
The matter did not prosper and was put on ice.
It is also known that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is investigating him for illicit enrichment, embezzlement of federal funds, tax fraud, use of illicit funds, and influence peddling. However, Flores Cervantes told SinEmbargo that the FGR has not prosecuted this accusation.
Since 2022, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is known to have sent letters to federal government agencies requesting, “on a RESERVED and URGENT basis” (sic), information on administrative procedures related to Moreno Cárdenas from 2015 to 2020, according to documents obtained by SinEmbargo.
Alejandro Moreno’s residence, which began construction when he was still Governor of Campeche, would have cost more than 46 million pesos, but the PRI member earned five million pesos annually at the time. Before assuming the Governorship in 2015, “Alito” acquired 13 properties in Lomas del Castillo, a high-value area in Campeche, where a square meter of land was valued at approximately three thousand 500 pesos at the time, so the value of the land would amount to 24.5 million pesos.
The Tricolor leader reported that he purchased these lands for a much lower price, between 595 and 1,645 pesos per square meter, meaning he claims to have spent a total of six million pesos.
In his statement, Moreno also revealed that as Governor, he earned a salary of 1,184,000 pesos a year, while “through other activities” he earned 4,122,000 pesos. Even if he spent 100 percent of his income, it wouldn’t be enough to cover the cost of building this mansion, the newspaper Reforma estimated at the time.
Before becoming state president, the current PRI leader lived in the Resurgimiento Residential Subdivision, near the Campeche seawall in the Montecristo neighborhood, behind a Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) building.
His house at the time consisted of three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a total of 210 square meters and 228 square meters of land; according to Reforma, its approximate value was up to 3.5 million pesos.
At the time, he clarified that his house consisted of “only three lots and that the current price of the property increased because when the land was acquired—between 2011 and 2015—it was largely covered in weeds.” He stated that two lots were donated to him and that he is still paying for another one through a loan.
Moreno stated that in 2005 he received “a family donation, which was the source of the investment,” and that he added to this the savings from the income from the public offices he has held throughout his career.
These very questions have him in the sights of the authorities.
Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas is accused of illicit enrichment, embezzlement, misuse of powers, tax fraud, and money laundering. The Investigative Section, headed by Morena Deputy Hugo Erick Flores Cervantes, has had a new request for his immunity removed since last August from the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Corruption in Campeche, which has accused Moreno Cárdenas since 2022.
In addition to the corruption allegations, the PRI leader has previously expression his opinion of the press. “Journalists shouldn’t be shot, they should be starved,” he was heard saying in one of several audio recordings leaked by the current governor of Campeche, Morena’s Layda Sansores. Later, another recording was released in which he argued that he would keep the media and journalists under control by means of “beatings.”
Obed Rosas is the editor of the Research Unit and head of the Books section of SinEmbargo*, where he has also served as Desk Manager and Network Editor. He hosts* Close UP and co-hosts, with Álvaro Delgado, Siete Días*, a program on* SinEmbargo Al Aire*. He has worked for other media outlets such as* Expansión*,* Newsweek en Español*, and* Zócalo Magazine*. He holds a degree in Communication and Journalism from the FES Aragón program at the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and also studied Hispanic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the same university.*
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