The Attorney General of the Republic is the head of the Attorney General's Office (''Fiscalía General de la República, FGR''; prior to 2019, ''Procuraduría General de la República, PGR'') and the Federal Public Ministry of the

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, an institution belonging to the Federal Government's constitutional autonomous organism that is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of federal crimes. The office is governed mainly by article 102 of the 1917 Constitution and the Organic Law of the Attorney General's Office (''Ley Orgánica de la Fiscalía General de la República'').Organic Law of the Attorney General of the Republic, published on the Official Journal of the Federation on 14 December, 2018. In Spanish.
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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 Office for Election-related Crimes, the

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, 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

Alejandro Gertz Manero Alejandro Gertz Manero (born 31 October 1939) is a Mexican lawyer and current Attorney General of Mexico. He served as Secretary of Public Security during part of Vicente Fox's government. From 2009 to 2012 he served as Deputy of the LXI Legisla ...

(1 December 2018 – present) * Alberto Elías Beltrán (16 October 2017 – 30 November 2018) *

Raúl Cervantes Andrade Raúl Cervantes Andrade (born 3 June 1963) is a Mexican lawyer, academic, businessman and politician. He was CEO of CEA Abogados S.C., Vice-president of the National Chamber of Passage and Tourism Transportation and has been a Federal Deputy ...

(26 October 2016 – 16 October 2017) * Arely Gómez González (27 February 2015 – 26 October 2016) *

Jesús Murillo Karam Jesús Murillo Karam (born 2 March 1947) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as governor of the state of Hidalgo from 1993 to 1998. In 1998 he became Undersecretary of Pub ...

(4 December 2012 – 27 February 2015) * Marisela Morales (1 April 2011 – 4 December 2012) * Arturo Chávez (24 September 2009 – 31 March 2011) *

Eduardo Medina Mora Eduardo Tomás Medina-Mora Icaza (Mexico City; 30 January 1957) is a Mexican lawyer. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mexico from 10 March 2015 to 8 October 2019, when the Mexican Senate approved his resignation following an ongo ...

(1 December 2006 – 7 September 2009) *

Daniel Cabeza de Vaca Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew language, Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel (given ...

(28 April 2005 – 30 November 2006) *

Rafael Macedo de la Concha Rafael Macedo de la Concha (born May 6, 1950 in Mexico City) is a Mexican army general and former Attorney General in the cabinet of Vicente Fox (December 1, 2000 – April 27, 2005). Macedo de la Concha has taught several law courses at ...

(1 December 2000 – 27 April 2005)

20th century

References

External links

Attorney General's Office website
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