Attorney General of Mexico

Attorney General of Mexico
Logo Procuraduria General de la Republica
Incumbent Marisela Morales since April 7, 2011
Formation	June 17, 1917
First holder	Pablo A. de la Garza
Website	pgr.gob.mx

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The Attorney General of Mexico (in Spanish: Procurador General de la República) is the head of the Office of the General Prosecutor (Procuraduría General de la República, PGR) and the Federal Public Ministry (Ministerio Público de la Federación), an institution belonging to the Federal executive branch that is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of federal crimes. The office is governed mainly by the Constitution of Mexico and the Organic Law of the Attorney General's Office (Ley Orgánica de la Procuraduría General de la República).^[1] The Attorney General is a member of the President's Cabinet. The most recent^[update] Attorney General was Arturo Chávez, who resigned in March 2011. Marisela Morales has been nominated to replace him.^[2]

Organization

The Attorney General's Office is organized into several subordinate entities, including five Under-Attorney General Offices (Legal and International Affairs, Regional Control and Criminal Procedures, Specialized in Organized Crime, Specialized in Federal Crimes, Human Rights and Community Services, Prosecutor Offices such as the Specialized in Electoral Crimes, the Federal Investigations Agency, and the National Center for Planning, Analysis and Information for Combating Crime (Centro Nacional de Planeación, Análisis e Información para el Combate a la Delincuencia, CENAPI).

List of Attorneys General

21st century

• Marisela Morales (1 April 2011 - present)
• Arturo Chávez (24 September 2009 - 31 March 2011)
• Eduardo Medina Mora (1 December 2006 - 7 September 2009)
• Daniel Cabeza de Vaca (28 April 2005 - 30 November 2006)
• Rafael Macedo de la Concha (1 December 2000 - 27 April 2005)

20th century

Attorneys General 1900-2000

Name	Term of Office
Rafael Rebollar	1900 – 1911
Manuel Castelazo Fuentes	1911 – 1911
Adolfo Valles	1911 – 1913
Francisco Modesto de Olaguíbel	1914 – 1914
Vicente Castro	1914
Pascual Morales y Molina	1916 – 1917
Pablo A. de la Garza	1917 – 1918
Carlos Salcedo	1918 – 1920
Eduardo Neri	1920 – 1922
Eduardo Delhumeau	1922 – 1924
Romeo Ortega y Castillo de Levín	1925 – 1928
Ezequiel Padilla Peñaloza	1928 – 1928
Enrique Medina	1928 – 1930
José Aguilar y Maya	1930 – 1932
Emilio Portes Gil	1932 – 1934
Silvestre Castro	1934 – 1936
Ignacio García Téllez	1936 – 1937
Antonio Villalobos Maillard	1937 – 1937
Genaro V. Vázquez Quiroz	1937 – 1940
José Aguilar y Maya	1940 – 1946
Francisco González de la Vega	1946 – 1952
Carlos Franco Sodi	1952 – 1956
Jose Aguilar y Maya	1956 – 1958
Fernando López Arias	1958 – 1962
Oscar Treviño Ríos	1962 – 1964
Antonio Rocha Cordero	1964 – 1967
Julio Sánchez Vargas	1967 – 1971
Pedro Ojeda Paullada	1971 – 1976
Oscar Flores Sánchez	1976 – 1982
Sergio García Ramírez	1982 – 1988
Enrique Álvarez del Castillo	1988 – 1991
Ignacio Morales Lechuga	1991 – 1993
Jorge Carpizo McGregor	1993 – 1994
Diego Valadés	1994 – 1994
Humberto Benítez Treviño	1994 – 1994
Antonio Lozano Gracia	1994 – 1996
Jorge Madrazo Cuéllar	1996 – 2000

Air Fleet

Many fixed-wing aircraft of the PGR were obtained after confiscated, so their air fleet consists of various types, of which very few of them are appropriate to the tasks against drug trafficking. Its current fleet consists of Commander Gulfstream jets 840, 900, 980 to 1000, Learjet, Citation I and II, and Grumman. They also operate several aircraft type Cessna , and Piper King Air.

During the administration of President Fox , most of the air fleet of the PGR-just over 100 units, was abandoned because we did not perform the required maintenance. In November 2007, during the administration of Calderon , the PGR yielded 58 helicopters to the Ministry of National Defense ( SEDENA ) to be mend and perform work for the eradication of drug crops. ^[3] In 2008, the PGR submitted an official request to the Ministry of Finance to buy 30 Eurocopter helicopters new for surveillance and interception.

• 26 Bell UH-1H
• 7 Bell 212
• 1 Bell 407
• 2 Bell LR 206
• 11 Schweizer 333

See also

• Presumed Guilty, a 2009 Mexican documentary film

References

1. ^ (in Spanish) ¿Qué es PGR?, Procuraduría General de la República, April 27 2007, http://www.pgr.gob.mx/Que%20es%20PGR/presentacion.asp 
2. ^ Wilkinson, Tracy (March 31, 2011). "Calderon replaces Mexico attorney general". The Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-attorney-general-20110401,0,4593286.story. Retrieved April 1, 2011. 
3. ^ [PGR gave http://www.el-universal.com.mx/nacion/156121.html Sedena inoperable aircraft to destroy crops]

External links

• Statistics of Crime in Mexico
• (Spanish) Attorney General's Office website