Jesús Murillo Karam (born 2 March 1947) is a Mexican
lawyer and
politician
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affiliated with the
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...
(PRI).
He served as governor of the state of
Hidalgo
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from 1993 to 1998. In 1998 he became Undersecretary of Public Security and then joined the campaign of
Francisco Labastida
Francisco Labastida Ochoa (; born 14 August 1942) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who became the first presidential candidate of his party to lose a presidential election, which h ...
in the
2000 presidential election. He is of
Lebanese descent.
In 2006 he was elected
senator for his state and in February 2007 as secretary general of his party with
Beatriz Paredes as president. He was president of the
Commission of Interior in the
Senate. In September 2012, he was elected to the LXII Legislature of Congress as the
President of the Chamber of Deputies. He later resigned this position to become Attorney General.
He became
Attorney General of Mexico
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(PGR) on 4 December 2012 and resigned on 27 February 2015 to head the
Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development.
In August 2022 Murillo Karam was arrested over multiple charges (torture, forced disappearances, and offences against the administration of justice) related to the
2014 Iguala mass kidnapping
On September 26, 2014, forty-three male students disappeared from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College after being forcibly abducted in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. They were allegedly taken into custody by local police officers from Iguala an ...
during his tenure as attorney general.
References
1947 births
Living people
Governors of Hidalgo (state)
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Politicians from Hidalgo (state)
Mexican people of Lebanese descent
21st-century Mexican politicians
Attorneys general of Mexico
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