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Arturo Chávez Chávez (born 4 September 1960) is a Mexican
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who served as Attorney General of Mexico in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón from 2009 until 2011. He previously served as
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of
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during the governorship of Francisco Barrio. He has also worked as chief advisor to former Senator
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, as Undersecretary of Legal Affairs and Human Rights at the Secretariat of the Interior and as former envoy of the secretariat during the
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Chávez as Attorney General

His nomination to the post of
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by President Felipe Calderón on 2009 was received with harsh criticism from some human rights activists and relatives of the victims of the
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,
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, who, according to William Booth of ''
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', claim he did little during his years as Attorney General of the state to solve the killings of hundreds of women in the 1990s. Chávez was required by law to testify before the
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before assuming office. According to Ken Ellingwood of the ''
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'', his party held a numerical advantage in the 128-seat legislative chamber but lacked a clear majority, so it needed to reach for votes across the aisle. During the session, Chávez expressed his opposition to the death penalty, though the Ecologist Green Party had strongly campaigned for its implementation—and
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, which the Senate as a whole had recently voted to decriminalize in small amounts for personal use. In the end, his nomination was confirmed with 75 votes in favor, 26 against (mostly from the political left), and one abstention. However, his appointment was criticised by the United States in a leaked diplomatic cable as "unexpected and inexplicable". Chávez resigned on 31 March 2011 after 18 months as Attorney General, citing personal reasons, three weeks after the U.S. cable was made public. President Calderón described Chávez's work in office as having "been fundamental to Mexico's efforts to establish rule of law", and said Chávez was the reason many cartel leaders had now faced justice. Calderón has appointed Marisela Morales, head of the organized crime department in the Office of the General Prosecutor, as Chávez's successor.


Supposed organized crime infiltration

According to the
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cable 09MEXICO2759 issued in September 2009, the United States government received information from "unpublished sources" that Chávez was allegedly infiltrated with a
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in
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during his term as Attorney General. The cables mention that Carlos Pascual, the former U.S. ambassador in Mexico, sent the information of Chávez's collaboration with the organized crime groups to United States Department of State. Nevertheless, nothing about the former state Attorney General relationship with the drug cartels was confirmed.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chavez Chavez, Arturo 1960 births 20th-century Mexican lawyers Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni Living people People from Chihuahua (state) Attorneys general of Mexico 21st-century Mexican lawyers