Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa[1] (born January 16, 1966 in Mexico City)[2] is the Mayor-elect of Mexico City, a lawyer and politician who works with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).[A] Mancera graduated from the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1989, and was awarded the Gabino Barreda Medal two years later, for being the best student of his class. He has a Master's degree from the University of Barcelona and the Metropolitan Autonomous University, and a Juris Doctor from the UNAM.
Mancera has been a professor at multiple universities, including the UNAM, Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico and University of Mexico Valley. In 2002, he began working as bureaucrat when Marcelo Ebrard, then-Secretary of Public Security of Mexico City, invited him to be his adviser. In 2006, Mancera became Assistant Attorney General, and from 2008 to 2012 he worked as Attorney General of the city. According to official reports, from 2010 to 2011 crime in Mexico City decreased by up to 12%.[3] In early 2012, Mancera became the candidate of the Progressive Movement coalition, composed of the political parties PRD, Labor Party and Citizens' Movement Party, for Head of Government of the Federal District in the July 1, 2012 elections. On July 7, 2012, Mancera became Mayor-elect after he won with over 63% of the vote, and is due to take office in December 2012.[1][4]
Miguel Ángel Mancera Espinosa was born on January 16, 1966 in colonia Anahuac,[2] located in Miguel Hidalgo borough, Mexico City. His father is the founder of Mexican restaurant chain Los Bisquets de Obregón.[2][5][6] Mancera has four half-siblings: Ana, Miguel, Jaime and María del Carmen.[6] When he was four, he lived in Tacuba neighborhood,[7] where he went to kindergarten.[6] Mancera studied at Miguel Alemán Primary School and Secondary School 45, both located in Benito Juárez borough.[6][7] He studied high school at Preparatoria 6, a biochemistry school that belongs to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).[6][7] According to Mancera, when he was a teenager he had a car accident, where another car crashed into his, and Mancera was the passenger. The public ministry asked Mancera to sign a document that exempted the driver of the car that caused the accident from liability.[6][7] Mancera asked Victoria Adato Green, then-Attorney General of the Federal District, to pursue the case, assisted by consultor Diego Ramudia, and managed to sanction the responsible driver.[7]
Mancera decided to change his career, and after he revalidated four subjects, he attended the Faculty of Law of the UNAM from 1985 to 1989.[6][7] His thesis, "La libertad por desvanecimiento de datos en el Proceso Penal y la Absolución de la Instancia" ("The progressive release of public data on criminal prosecutions and acquittals") won the Diario de México Medal "Los Mejores Estudiantes de México" in November 1990.[8] In November 1991, he was awarded the Gabino Barreda Medal by the UNAM Faculty of Law, for being the best of his class of 1989.[5][7][8] Mancera earned his Master's degree from the University of Barcelona[7][9] and the Metropolitan Autonomous University, Azcapotzalco campus,[10] and his Juris Doctor from UNAM, with honors,[11] with his thesis "El injusto en la tentativa y la graduación de su pena en el derecho penal mexicano" ("Injustice and disparity in Mexican criminal sentencing").[7] His studies included a specialty in penal law at the University of Salamanca and the University of Castile-La Mancha, Spain,[11][12][13] under the auspices of the Panamerican University, Mexico.[11][13][3]
Manera has worked as candidate attorney, lawyer and adviser at several law firms, including García Cordero y Asociados and Grupo de Abogados Consultores.[6][9][14] Mancera has been a professor at multiple universities of Mexico, including the UNAM, Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, University of Mexico Valley, Panamerican University, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, and Autonomous University of Baja California, among others.[5][7][9][11] In 2002, Mancera was a review committee member of the Criminal Procedure Code for the Federal District,[11] and near the same time hebegan working in government after Marcelo Ebrard, who was Mexico City Secretary of Public Security, invited him to be his adviser.[12][15] After Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then-Head of Government of Mexico City, named Ebrard as Social Development Secretary of the city, Mancera was assigned Legal Director of the Social Development Secretariat.[12] In 2006, Mancera was named Assistant Attorney General of Mexico City.[12]
In 2008, Mancera was named Attorny General of Mexico City, after Rodolfo Félix Cárdenas was dismissed from office due to the News Divine Bar incident,[16] in which nine teenagers and three police officers died in a botched police raid.[2][17] According to official reports,[3] from 2010 to 2011 crime in Mexico City decreased by 12%,[2][3][18] the national crime rate rose 10.4%.[2] Average annual crime in Mexico City decreased 3.5% annually, from 2007 to 2011, and Mexico City dropped from third place to number twenty nationally in number of kidnappings.[3] During this time, 179 street gangs with 706 members were disbanded.[19]
Mancera (
center) with López Obrador (
far left), Ebrard (
far right), and others at López Obrador presidential campaign, 2012. The event took place on June 27, 2012 in
Zócalo,
Mexico City
On January 6, 2012, Mancera resigned to become candidate for the Head of Government in the 2012 election. Jesús Rodríguez Almeida took his place as Attorny General.[20] On January 8, Mancera registered as a precandidate for Mayor of Mexico City, as a member of the PRD.[21] On January 19, he became the official Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) candidate for Mayor of Mexico City, running against Alejandra Barrales, Gerardo Fernández Noroña, Martí Batres and Joel Ortega Cuevas, representing the leftist Progressive Movement coalition, which is formed by the PRD party, the Labor Party, and the Citizen's Movement Party.[22][23] The adversaries of Mancera were Beatriz Paredes Rangel, for the Commitment to Mexico coalition, an alliance of political parties Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM),[24] Isabel Miranda de Wallace for the National Action Party (PAN),[25] and Rosario Guerra for the New Alliance Party (PANAL).[26] According to surveys made in late January, Mancera was between 18 and 30 points ahead of Paredes.[27] However, the following month, electoral preferences that favored him decreased by nine points.[28] Electoral preference for Mancera then increased from 36% in March to 41% in April in an El Universal daily poll.[29] In May, Mancera favorability increased to 57.5%;[30] in the same month, Adolfo Hellmund, Luis Mandoki, and Costa Bonino, in the house of Luis Creel,[31] borrowed 6 million dollars on behalf of Mancera and López Obrador, but both politicians disassociated themselves the incident,[32] and Mancera filed a complaint against the people responsible for using his name without authorization with the Attorney General of Mexico City.[31]
The proposals of Mancera included to continue Ebrard's policies,[33] an increase of 13.000 to 20.000 safety cameras,[34] a reduction of car travel time, the expansion of the Mexico City Metro 12 line, a review the issue of solid waste, the minibuses will be removed from the streets, 18 water purification plants, a Green Plan, the replacement of garbage trucks to separate organic and inorganic waste, among others.[35] On July 1, 2012, exit polls noted that Mancera was the presumed winner of the election, with a margin of 59.5–64.5%,[36] and had approximately 40% more votes than the second-place candidate, Paredes.[37] On July 7, 2012, the Federal District Electoral Institute (IEDF) announced Mancera as Head of Government-elect, endorsing him with a certificate;[1][38][39] Mancera will take office on December 5, 2012.[4]
Mancera has been married twice. His first marriage was to a woman named Martha in the early 90s, with whom lived in civil union for a year.[6] They divorced two years later, and after six years Mancera married Magnolia, with whom he had two children, Miguel and Leonardo.[6][12] After a decade, he divorced Magnolia.[6] Mancera has a daughter out of wedlock, but he has said the child's mother does not want Mancera to see her[6] In September 2007, two assailants on a motorcycle intercepted and attempted to rob him while he drove his BMW in Periférico Sur. His bodyguard intervened and shot one of the robbers, killing him.[12] From 2008 to 2009, Mancera dated Alejandra Barrales.[6][12] In his spare time, he practices multiple sports, including Krav Maga, indoor cycling and weight lifting, hunting and aviation.[40] In 2008, Mancera received the Alfonso Caso Award, given by the UNAM Faculty of Law, for the most distinguished graduate of the doctoral program.[41] In September 2011, he was awarded the Latin American Prize for Life and Security of Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean.[42] In October 2011, he was co-awarded the First Class Honor Star Medal, by the Police and Security Association, for "his international collaboration to search and locate supected criminals, as well as cooperation for the exchange of information and training on security and law enforcement."[43]
- La Tentativa en el Código Penal para el Distrito Federal, una Nueva Propuesta (2003)[44]
- La Comisión por Omisión en el Nuevo Código Penal para el Distrito Federal (2003)[45]
- López Obrador Caso el Encino. Implicaciones Constitucionales, Penales y de Procedimiento Penal (2005)[41]
- Caso el Encino ¿Delito? (2005)[41]
- Nuevo Código para el Distrito Federal Comentado, Tomo III (2006)[46]
- Estudios Jurídicos en Homenaje a Olga Islas de González Mariscal, Tomo II (2007)[47]
- Estudios Jurídicos en Homenaje al Dr. Ricardo Franco Guzmán (2008)[41]
- Derecho Penal, Especialidad y Orgullo Universitario Papel del Abogado (2011)[41]
- Derecho Penal del enemigo (2011)[41]
- El Tipo de la Tentativa: Teoría y Práctica (2012)[48]
- A ^ Although Mancera has worked under the PRD administration he has never joined the party.[18][37]
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Mancera Espinosa, Miguel Angel |
| Alternative names |
Mancera, Miguel Angel |
| Short description |
Mexican politician |
| Date of birth |
January 16, 1966 |
| Place of birth |
Miguel Hidalgo, D.F., Mexico City |
| Date of death |
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| Place of death |
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