for "personal reasons" and left the department in a severe cash crisis. He rejoined the PRI in July 2012. Two years after leaving the state government, Duarte put Ruiz back in his cabinet, this time as state secretary of infrastructure and public works. In July 2016, one local PAN politician said that Ruiz had "disappeared" from the state of Veracruz, a year after awarding a concession for an underwater tunnel in Coatzacoalcos that was still not complete. References 1963 births Living people Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Mexican economists Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México alumni Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Escuela Libre de Derecho alumni Columbia University alumni Politicians from Mexico City 21st-century Mexican politicians Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico