Jorge Emilio González Martínez (born 16 April 1972 in Mexico City), popularly known as El Niño Verde (the Green Boy), is a Mexican politician affiliated with the
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM). He serves as a senator in the
LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing
Quintana Roo. He also served as a senator from 2000 to 2006 and as a federal deputy from 1997 to 2000.
González Martínez took over leadership of the PVEM in 2001 from his father,
Jorge González Torres
Jorge González Torres (born in 1942 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician, founder of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. He was also the co-president of the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas.
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, who founded the party in 1986. His uncle
Víctor González Torres
Víctor González Torres (born July 1, 1947, in Mexico City) is a Mexican pharmaceutical businessman and politician, popularly known as Doctor Simi, the name of the character that represents his chain of companies, collectively called Farmacias ...
is the owner of the Farmacias Similares drugstore franchise and was a write-in candidate for president in 2006. His maternal grandfather, Emilio Martínez Manatou, was an
Institutional Revolutionary Party congressman, presidential hopeful in 1970 and the governor of
Tamaulipas from 1981 to 1987.
Controversies
In February 2004 as part of the Mexican
Videoscandals
The ''Videoscandals'' ( es, Videoescándalos) were political scandals in Mexico in 2004 when videos of prominent politicians taken with hidden cameras were made public. The majority of them involved politicians in corrupt dealings with former busi ...
, a grainy hidden-camera video aired on Mexican television, showing González Martínez allegedly negotiating a $2 million bribe to assist in the development of a hotel in an ecologically protected area near
Cancún. González Martínez at first claimed that the video was fake, then claimed he was part of a sting to expose crooked developers, before finally claiming that the video was part of a smear campaign set up by the
Vicente Fox administration.
In February 2013, González Martínez was arrested for driving while intoxicated in Mexico City. He reportedly gave police officers a fake name and refused to take a breathalyzer test. González Martínez's bodyguards also reportedly attempted to bribe the police, and then tried to forcibly free him from police custody. A video game parodying the incident was made available for download.
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1972 births
Living people
Politicians from Mexico City
Ecologist Green Party of Mexico politicians
Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
20th-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Members of the Congress of Mexico City
Universidad del Valle de México alumni
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