History of enrique pena nieto

Mr Lozoya said he could bring in four witnesses, as well as video and other documents to back up his accusations.

Mr Lozoya was one of the most powerful figures in Mexico when he was the president's adviser.

Neither Mr Peña Nieto nor Mr Videgaray have commented on the specific allegations against them. They have not been charged with anything.

However, Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz considered the testimony important enough to have launched an investigation into the matter.

In the past, no former president in Mexico has gone to jail despite successive governments being tainted by widespread corruption, the BBC's Mexico correspondent Will Grant says.

Incumbent President Andrés Manuel López Obrador had earlier said he was not in favour of bringing charges against his predecessor - but would defer to any decision reached by the attorney general.

Today is President Enrique Peña Nieto’s official last day of work, and he leaves one of the worst human rights crises in the entire hemisphere as his legacy. A shared legacy, the result of a series of failures and poor decisions made by his government and the ones that came before.

When Peña Nieto came to power six years ago, Mexico was already embroiled in a serious crisis of violence, with thousands of people caught in the crossfire of a so-called “war against drugs”.

During his election campaign, Peña Nieto promised to tackle the crisis using different strategies; it is clear now that those promises were nothing more than rhetoric. Instead of changing strategies, he increased militarisation, creating a fertile breeding ground for serious human rights violations.

During his election campaign, Peña Nieto promised to tackle the crisis using different strategies; it is clear now that those promises were nothing more than rhetoric. Instead of changing strategies, he increased militarisation, creating a fertile breeding ground for serious human rights violations

Erika Guevara Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International

In February 2014, hoping to be able to influence a drastic change in strategy to one in which human rights were central to government action, the then Secretary General of Amnesty International, Salil Shetty, and I met with Peña Nieto at his official residence, Los Pinos. As Mexico has always been a priority for Amnesty International, and in recognition of the complex situation faced by the country, we told the president at that meeting that we would be setting up our International Secretariat for the Americas the following year and its headquarters would be in Mexico City. During the meeting, we also provided Peña Nieto and the members of his cabinet with a document outlining specific recommendations and concerns, gathered from our experience on the ground and from the many legitimate voices of

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Who Is Enrique Peña Nieto?

Interested in politics from the time he was a boy, Enrique Peña Nieto quickly climbed the ranks of power and at the age of 39 was elected governor of the State of Mexico. In 2012, Peña Nieto won the Mexican presidency with 38 percent of the vote. However, his administration was marked by various scandals and an inability to stem the country's violent drug trade, resulting in diminished approval ratings over his six-year term.

Early Years

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was born on July 20, 1966, in the Mexican city of Altacomulco, located in the northwest region of the country. The oldest of four children, Peña Nieto had an upper middle-class childhood. His mother, María, worked as a school teacher while his father, Gilberto, was an engineer with the national electric company.

As a boy, Peña Nieto professed an early passion for politics. At Denis Hall School in Alfred, Maine, which he attended during his junior year of high school in 1979 so that he could learn English, Peña Nieto told classmates he planned to be governor of his home state.

Political Rise

Peña Nieto's interest in politics was partly the result of proximity. A close family friend, Jorge Jiménez Cantú, served as governor of the State of Mexico, as did his father's cousin, Alfredo del Mazo González. Peña Nieto ended up working for both men during their respective times in office.

Peña Nieto earned his law degree in 1989 from Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City, and in 1991 his M.B.A. from Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education. It was while studying law that Peña Nieto aligned himself with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Mexico's dominant political party, whose controversial and often corrupt rule of the country's presidency spanned 71 years, from 1929 to 2000.

In the 1990s, the young lawyer immersed himself in political work. Leveraging his connection to Alfredo del Mazo González, Peña Nieto wo

Enrique Pena Nieto won the 2012 Mexican presidential election, returning to power the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which dominated Mexican politics for much of the 20th Century.

During his election campaign, the 46-year-old promised to reform the PRI, which during its seven decades in power had become involved in corruption and patronage.

He beat left-wing politician Manuel Lopez Obrador and centre-right candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota to the presidential post.

Having joined the PRI at the age of 18, Mr Pena Nieto first came to political prominence in 2005 as the governor of the state of Mexico.

He laid out more than 600 tasks which he pledged to carry out during his time as governor, signing them before a notary to convince voters he was serious about his commitment.

The promises ranged from building new highways to improving the fresh water supply to the state.

Task list

When opposition politicians questioned his effectiveness in carrying out the promised tasks, Mr Pena Nieto published a list of all the projects he said he had successfully tackled, complete with costings and the number of people he said they had benefited.

Upon becoming president, Mr Pena Nieto again made a list of his priorities, laying them out in his first speech after taking office on 1 December, 2012.

With 70,000 people estimated to have died in drug-related violence in Mexico over the past six years, it comes as little surprise that Mr Pena Nieto's top three aims should be centred around decreasing the crime and murder rate and curbing the influence of Mexico's powerful drug cartels.

Mr Pena Nieto promised to promote a crime prevention programme, a law aimed at protecting victims of crime, and said he would push through a unified penal code for all of Mexico to avoid having different statutes in different Mexican states.

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He also said he would ensure police investigations would be carried out according to