Arturo Chávez Chávez
| Arturo Chávez Chávez | |
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| Attorney General (Mexico) | |
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In office 24 September 2009 – 31 March 2011 |
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| President | Felipe Calderón |
| Preceded by | Eduardo Medina Mora |
| Succeeded by | Marisela Morales |
| Attorney General of Chihuahua | |
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In office 1996 – 1998 |
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| Governor | Francisco Barrio |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 September 1960 Mexico |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Political party | National Action Party |
| Alma mater | Monterrey Institute of Technology, Chihuahua Campus |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Arturo Chávez Chávez (born 4 September 1960) is a Mexican prosecutor who served as Attorney General of Mexico in the cabinet of President Felipe Calderón from 24 September 2009 until 31 March 2011. He previously served as Attorney General of Chihuahua during the governorship of Francisco Barrio.
He has also worked as chief advisor to former Senator Diego Fernández de Cevallos, as Undersecretary of Legal Affairs and Human Rights at the Secretariat of the Interior and as former envoy of the secretariat during the 2006 Oaxaca protests.
His nomination to the post of Attorney General by President Felipe Calderón on 7 September 2009 was received with harsh criticism from some human rights activists and relatives of the victims of the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, who, according to William Booth of the Washington Post, claim he did little during his years as Attorney General of the state to solve the killings of hundreds of women in the 1990s.
Chávez was required by law to testify before the Senate before assuming office. According to Ken Ellingwood of the Los Angeles Times, his party held a numerical advantage in the 128-seat legislative chamber but lacked a clear majority, so it needed to reach for votes across the aisle. During the session, Chávez expressed his opposition to the death penalty, though the Ecologist Green Party had strongly campaigned for its implementation—and cannabis legalization, which the Senate as a whole had recently voted to decriminalize in small amounts for personal use. In the end, his nomination was confirmed with 75 votes in favor, 26 against (mostly from the political left), and one abstention. However, his appointment was criticised by the United States in a leaked diplomatic cable as "unexpected and inexplicable".
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