A sitting member of the Tulum City Council is facing sharp public criticism after posting a video of himself aboard a private jet, dancing and humming along to a song, on his personal Facebook profile. The video, shared by Eliazar Más Kinil, the Morena-affiliated regidor for Tourism, Industry, Commerce, and Agricultural Affairs, went viral on June 2, 2025, prompting hundreds of critical comments and no official response from the official.
The backlash is not just about the video. Más Kinil has built a social media presence that regularly features private air travel, first-division soccer matches, and other markers of expensive living. For residents and social media users tracking the post, the central question is simple: where does the money come from? That question remains unanswered.
A Video That Landed Wrong
The footage shows Más Kinil seated alone inside what appears to be a private aircraft, visibly at ease, moving to music. The clip is short. The reaction was not.
Users across Facebook and other platforms criticized the display as out of touch for a public servant, with some describing his conduct in blunt terms. The criticism gained momentum partly because Tulum's tourism sector has experienced a difficult stretch in 2025, marked by record sargassum accumulation, reduced hotel occupancy, and sustained economic pressure on local business owners and workers.
Más Kinil has not issued a public statement addressing the origins of the resources that fund these activities. The Tulum Times requested comment and received no reply by publication time.
The Family Political Background
Más Kinil is the brother of Víctor Más Tah, who served as mayor of Tulum from 2018 to 2021 under a PAN-PRD alliance, having previously been affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). That administration ended under a cloud.
According to audits by state oversight bodies, Víctor Más Tah's tenure involved alleged irregularities in the handling of more than 115 million pesos in federal revenue-sharing funds. Auditors also documented a potential damage to the public treasury of more than 21 million pesos linked to road paving projects with documented construction deficiencies. No final criminal convictions have been publicly reported in connection with those findings.
Eliazar Más Kinil's use of his maternal second surname, Kinil, rather than the paternal Tah, has drawn notice. His mother is deceased, and no public explanation has been offered for the surname arrangement.
A Pattern on Social Media
The private jet post is not an isolated moment. According to local media reports and public social media activity reviewed by The Tulum Times, Más Kinil has posted repeatedly about travel by air, attendance at top-flight soccer games, and other activities associated with significant personal spending. The frequency of those posts, rather than any single video, has been the source of sustained public interest.
Morena, the ruling national party, was built in part on a rhetoric of republican austerity, a principle promoted heavily by the party's founder and former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Whether that standard applies to municipal officeholders, and how, is a question that party officials have not publicly addressed in the context of the Tulum case.
Accountability Questions With No Official Answer
Public servants at the municipal level in Mexico are required to file asset disclosures upon taking and leaving office. Whether Más Kinil's disclosures reflect a financial profile consistent with his visible lifestyle is not information that has been made publicly available or independently verified by The Tulum Times at this time.
What is documented is the absence of any explanation. No statement has been issued by the councilman, the Tulum city government, or the local Morena party structure addressing the public concern. The video remains on social media. The scrutiny continues.
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