Diego Sinhue House: Inside the Governor’s Residence

By Kennia Velázquez, Arnoldo Cuéllar and Emilio Jiménez
POBLAB / connects

In a quiet closed street, where only residents circulate and seventeen houses are counted in total, live the family of the former Guanajuato governor, Diego Sinhue Rodríguez Vallejo. Housing, valued In a million dollars (20 million pesos), it is located in The Woodlands, an exclusive residential area north of Houston. It is an environment inhabited by athletes, businessmen, entertainment figures and politicians.

The house is not in your name. Poblab and Connectas achieved the documents of the last transfer of property. The house was bought by the DAI LLC firm, registered in the state of Colorado on March 9, 2020. In Colorado the information regarding the final beneficiaries of the companies is not publicly accessible, but in one of the documents of the transaction the signing of the manager appears. This is Daniel Ezquenazi Beraha, a Mexican architect from the capital that has represented Seguritech, a company that has agreed for security businesses with the State.

The company has been active in Guanajuato since 2012, when it sold a technological shielding project for 2,840 million pesos (188.7 million dollars) to the Miguel Márquez government. In the six -year term of Sinhue the contracts continued, but they were first denied and then reserved, under the argument that their dissemination “represents a risk for public security.”

Esquenazi is also a close and partner of Ariel Picker Schatz, Executive Director of Seguritech and his subsidiaries. The Semanario Zeta de Tijuana, identified Esquezi as “the head of Public Relations of Seguritech” in reports published in 2022, which caused an Orlando law firm, Florida, Florida, to request a demarcation between scheneozi and securech in their journalistic notes. Seguritech has been pointed out in journalistic investigations for its service disabledits high costs, the opacity with which it is handled, and even for Costing flights to a senior official of the Nayib Bukele government in El Salvador.

The lawyers argued to the weekly that Esquenazi was no longer part of the company and that this link registered in the Internet notes “affects their working life and their family environment.”

However, in Guanajuato Esquenazi continues to appear in offices of municipal governments to advocate for the interests of the Ariel Picker company, as happened in March this year in Celaya when the mayor of Morena, Juan Miguel Ramírez, rescinded the Seguritech contract to maintain the control center of the Security Secretariat (C-4), inherited from the previous administration.

The relationship between these two entrepreneurs, Picker and Esquenazi, and the former Guanajuato governor is not limited to the hiring of Seguritech. Both entrepreneurs associated in 2019 to develop an extensive rural property of 184 hectares in Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato, where they have the Viñedo Omúnwhich has a luxury hotel and territorial reserve for a future subdivision. Picker and his mother have 49,999 actions of this vineyard through the company Developments Nala and Leira S. de RL of CV in which both own. Esquenazi, on the other hand, has only one action.

On the side of the vineyard is the sale, a community of 980 inhabitants with historical rests because it is part of the viceregal road of inland. After the purchase of the vineyard by these entrepreneurs and during the management of Diego Sinhue, the area was removed with state resources through an express investment of at least 120 million pesos (6.5 million dollars), with the claim to frame the vineyard.

A PLOPAB investigation revealed how resources were applied without due controls a few months after the end of the Sinhue government. For example, for the bullring, whose remodeling contract for 13 million pesos (709 thousand dollars) was not yet signed when the work was almost completed.

Connectas sought the version of Diego Sinhue, Esquenazi and Picker, but to the date of publication of this report the questions sent had not been answered. Esquenazi, the only one who answered the request, just asked how the team had achieved their contact.

In an interview with the online news, on the eve of completing his term in September 2024, the 44 -year -old president recalled that he has been a political career for more than 20 years and that he now wants to devote himself to his family and business. “I have a registered business. It is registered, I pay taxes, do not worry. But I am one day to leave, I don’t want to give them too much information.” However, in his Patrimonial declarationcarried out in April 2024, he said he had no participation in company, association or any society. In the Public Registry of Commerce, the former governor only appears as a partner in the company Dimauri, SA de CV, created in August 2010 and dissolved in September 2016.

Certainly, Sinhue had a meteoric political career with the National Action Party as a councilor in the municipality of León, local deputy, Federal Deputy and Secretary of Social Development in the State Government for three years, where he jumped to the candidacy for governor, a position he held from 2018 to September 2024.

But the new lifestyle of the former governor has caused a stir in the Guanajuatenses. Therefore, In the interview with online, he was asked about a possible golden exile in Texas, said “Rent a normal house” and clarified that it was not about him, but about his wife and daughters, who were going to study English.

The house was built in 2017 and has five bedrooms and four bathrooms in a built area of ​​357 square meters over a land of 1,122 square meters. It has a pool, multimedia room, games room and a garage for three cars. Similar houses in the area are rented in around $ 4,200 per month.

General images of the neighborhood in The Woodlands. PHOTOS: PLOPAB

According to the “General guarantee writing with third -party tax”, The previous owners transferred the property on March 20, 2025 to DAI, LLC. The act was recorded on March 1, 2025 in the public records of the Harris County, with the faith of the Notary Karen Murcia-Gonzalez.

The property located at 34 Winter Thicket Place, with the 656064 record, is free of levies, except for the mortgage loan with the Vantage Bank Texas, for an amount of $ 899,250.00 dollars, that is, 17.9 million pesos.

DAI, LLC, represented by its manager, Esquenazi, made the request for a Loan guaranteed by a mortgage With a period of 30 years, for a “second home”-that is, it is not the main residence-among its obligations the prohibition “of shared times or other shared property agreement” is established. In addition, he demands that the buyer “maintain property as a residence for your personal use and joy during the first year.”

Diego Sinhue and his wife in Texas. Photos shared by the couple on their social networks.

Shortly after the transaction was carried out, according to two sources consulted by PopLab who requested anonymity status, Diego Sinhue and his family arrived at their new domicile. On May 4, his wife, Adriana Ramírez, shared an image of her youngest daughter’s birthday. The details of the wall and window behind them show similarities to the photos published for the sale of the house. In the visit to the neighborhood, a neighbor confirmed that recently a meeting was held at which children attended.

Poplab visited the place several times. Three cars were found in the garage: a 2005 Jeep Wrangler with Guanajuato plates; A Jeep TJ 2024 that is in the name of Ana Luisa Ramírez Lozano- sister-in-law of the former governor- with registration in Guanajuato and a 2024 Jeep Gladiator with plates from the state of Texas. These last two with a value greater than one million pesos, each.

Images used to advertise the sale of the house on the real estate portal Har.com. PHOTO OF THE FACKE: PLOPB.

In 2013, the private Seguritech subsidiary, SA de CV sold a program called Miguel Márquez Márquez (2012-2018) to the Government of Guanajuato. The program It cost him to the State 2,700 million pesos (165 million pesos) of leases

The system was justified as the way to build a state shielding against violence that affected neighboring entities such as Michoacán and Jalisco. However, it did not serve to stop the growing deterioration of security in Guanajuato And it was in the heyday of its operation that arose and consolidated the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel. Also They grew up At exponential levels the theft of fuel and the malicious homicides.

During the Government of Diego Sinhue, 35 thousand 942 investigation folders were initiated by homicide. But, despite the wave of violence that Guanajuato lived, the former governor during his first year He did not attend to security meetings with the federal government.

In its management, the shield system passed to the State at the end of the lease and the information related to the new hiring of the Seguritech services is reserved for security reasons. The argument not to provide at least the number and amount of the contracts is that “it is equally risky for the public interest and the safety of people since when providing such data, it is simple for a criminal group such as those that have been introduced to exercise their illegal activities in the Guanajuato territory to dimension the size of the contracted infrastructure.”

The available public information indicates that in nine years Seguritech obtained contracts for an amount exceeding 2,800 million pesos (188 million dollars). From the period of Diego Sinhue there is only one data of 2019, for a “comprehensive project” and a payment of just 2.2 million pesos (119 thousand dollars).

The contracts of the first three years of the administration of Diego Sinhue Rodríguez remain reserved. In the following years, no information has been provided.

Opacity is not limited to legal reserves; It is also manifested in inconsistencies, such as the one that shows the response of the Government Transparency Unit, dated March 23, 2023. It responds differently to a request on “the invoices of the lease of the helicopters contracted by the State Government for security”. While the Ministry of Finance recognizes the existence of a contract for aerial surveillance services – whose content is reserved – the Secretariat of Security responds sharply: “No LEASE CONTRACT OF ROTATIVE WING AIRTURE AND/OR HELICOPTERS was located, in the indicated period.”

The new security services were helicopter flyers for surveillance and use of drones for monitoring, of which to date it has not been revealed to the supplier.

Seguritech, on the other hand, is a company that continues to grow. Passed from Sell ​​alarms Neighborhoods and panic buttons in the 90s, in Mexico City, to become an important provider of the public video surveillance and data -related data, until the monitoring systems of at least 10 states of the country and dozens of municipalities.

In recent years he has internationalized his services in countries such as Colombiawhere he developed a video surveillance service in Bogotá. According to the Information and Communication Technology Services Supplier Oraclethe Mexican company already has projects in the United States, Israel, China, Ecuador and El Salvador.