After stepping down from the Mexican presidency in December of 2018, Enrique Peña Nieto has been having a swell old time. Following his divorce from Angelica Rivera, the soap-opera star who stayed by his side just long enough for him to complete his term, Peña Nieto has been flouncing around the world in the company of a new girlfriend, with sightings in Spain, Belgium, and a comical episode in a Chinese restaurant in New York where the couple donned disguises to avoid being spotted.

Meanwhile, in the tattered nation he left behind, the walls are closing in around both his former administration and the party it returned to power: the once-hegemonic Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Three occurrences in recent weeks have brought his former administration back into the headlines, shining a harsh spotlight on the impunity that reigned under his watch.

First, the former director of the state oil company Pemex during the Peña years, Emilio Lozoya, has been extradited from Spain to face charges of fraud, bribery, and operations with illicit funds involving the infamous Brazilian company Odebrecht, the construction giant involved in bribery scandals throughout Latin America. Second, former Chihuahua governor César Duarte has been arrested in Florida and is facing extradition charges of his own for the funneling of state money into PRI election campaigns. Third, new revelations have emerged surrounding the disappearance of forty-three students from the Rural Teachers’ College of Ayotzinapa which refute the version of events sustained by Peña Nieto’s administration. Let’s take a look at each of these in turn.