Back

Mexico & Nafta - November 2016 (ISSN 1741-444X)

Seeking to bolster PGR and SFP amid persistent corruption

After Mexico’s authorities were once again embarrassed by their failure to deal effectively with two high-profile government corruption cases, President Enrique Peña Nieto has decided to introduce changes at the helm of the federal attorney general’s office (PGR). Arely Gómez, who only assumed the politically sensitive leadership of the PGR in February 2015, has been moved to the public function secretariat (SFP), the federal oversight body in charge of monitoring the conduct of public officials. Peña Nieto maintains that the move, and Gómez’s replacement at the PGR with Senator Raúl Cervantes, will help to revamp both the PGR and the SFP, and to generally improve the fight against corruption and impunity.

End of preview - This article contains approximately 1211 words.

Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article

Not a Subscriber?

Choose from one of the following options

Back

Articles in this issue