José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos

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José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos (7 June 1957 – 4 November 2008) was a Mexican lawyer and civil servant.[1]

Santiago Vasconcelos, a native of Mexico City, earned a law degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1993 he began working for the office of the federal Attorney-General (PGR), in the drug-trafficking control area. He was later appointed Assistant Attorney-General for Legal and International Affairs and, following that appointment, served as Assistant Attorney-General at the Organized Crime Specialized Investigation Office (SIEDO), Mexico's top anti-drug prosecutor.[2] The last position he held was as head of the PGR's technical secretariat for implementing the recent constitutional reforms on criminal justice and public security.

José Luis Santiago died on 4 November 2008 when the airplane he was traveling on crashed in Mexico City. This accident also claimed the life of Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño.[3][4]

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