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 The Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (, , PVEM or PVE) is a green political party in Mexico. Founded in 1986, the party is associated with Jorge González Torres and his son Jorge Emilio González Martínez. It has seldom gotten more than 10% of ...

(PVEM). He serves as a senator in the

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representing

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. 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, who founded the party in 1986. His uncle

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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

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congressman, presidential hopeful in 1970 and the governor of

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from 1981 to 1987.

Controversies

In February 2004 as part of the Mexican

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, 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

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. 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

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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 Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) 20th-century Mexican politicians Senators of the LVIII and LIX Legislatures of Mexico Members of the Congress of Mexico City Universidad del Valle de México alumni {{Mexico-politician-EcologistGreen-stub