Some of the personalities mentioned in his book are Tomás Yarrington, Manuel Cavazos Lerma and Eugenio Javier Hernández Flores, former governors of Tamaulipas, and Egidio Torre Cantú, current governor of the state.
The PRI expelled three of its candidates to mayor in Tamaulipas because they were "threatened or purchased" by drug trafficking to support Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, PAN candidate for governor of the state.