Alejandro Gertz Manero

Alejandro Gertz Manero
Gertz Manero in 2025
Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 January 2026
PresidentClaudia Sheinbaum
Preceded byJosefa González-Blanco Ortiz-Mena
Attorney General of Mexico
In office
18 January 2019 – 27 November 2025
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byErnestina Godoy Ramos
Prosecutor General of Mexico
Acting
1 December 2018 – 18 January 2019
PresidentAndrés Manuel López Obrador
Preceded byAlberto Elías Beltrán [es]
Succeeded byOffice abolished
1st Secretary of Public Security
In office
1 December 2000 – 3 June 2004
PresidentVicente Fox
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byRamón Martín Huerta
Other offices
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
1 September 2009 – 31 August 2012
ConstituencyFifth electoral region
Secretary of Citizen Security of Mexico City
In office
29 August 1998 – 4 December 2000
Preceded byRodolfo Debernardi Debernardi
Succeeded byLeonel Godoy Rangel
Personal details
Born (1939-10-31) 31 October 1939 (age 86)
Mexico City, Mexico
PartyIndependent[a]
Alma materEscuela Libre de Derecho (LLB)
National Autonomous University of Mexico (PhD)
ProfessionLawyer and politician

Alejandro Gertz Manero[b] (born 31 October 1939) is a Mexican lawyer and politician. He served as secretary of public security from 2000 to 2004 during the first part of Vicente Fox's government. In the 2009 mid-term election, he was elected to a plurinominal seat in the Chamber of Deputies.[1] He later served as attorney general under Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Claudia Sheinbaum from 2019 until his resignation in November 2025.[2]

On 7 January 2026, President Sheinbaum announced her intention for Gertz Manero to be appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom.[3]

Controversies

In 2021 he was admitted to the National Researchers System by a special committee, after having tried unsuccessfully for 11 years due to insufficient scientific output.[4] Writer Guillermo Sheridan showed evidence of plagiarism in a biography of Guillermo Prieto published by Gertz Manero, which was also reported by a group of 77 researchers.[5][6]

In 2022 he was accused of abusing his position as federal attorney general for a personal vendetta, illegally persecuting and jailing Alejandra Cuevas and Laura Morán for the death of his brother Federico Gertz in 2015.[7] He was accused of influence trafficking and criminal association by the former Counsel to the President, Julio Scherer Ibarra [es].[8] He owns several real estate properties in Madrid, Ibiza, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles, and bought 122 luxury vehicles.[9]

When he was secretary of public security in the government of president Vicente Fox, Gertz Manero was detained by DEA and ATF when he landed in New York in an official government plane, carrying a false passport and US$50,000 in cash. In 2022 the US government opened another investigation on him.[10]

Gertz Manero meets with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at FGR Headquarters in Mexico City in June 2021.

Notes

  1. ^ Although Gertz Manero was part of the Convergence parliamentary group during the 61st Legislature of the Mexican Congress, he was not formally a member of the party.
  2. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Gertz and the second or maternal family name is Manero.

References

  1. ^ "Perfil: Dip. Alejandro Gertz Manero". Sistema de Información Legislativa (SIL) (in Spanish). SEGOB. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  2. ^ Espinosa, Joshua (27 November 2025). "¿Quién es Alejandro Gertz Manero, fiscal de la república que presentó su renuncia?". Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 November 2025.
  3. ^ López Castro, Fernanda (7 January 2026). "Sheinbaum anuncia que Gertz Manero será embajador de México en Gran Bretaña". Infobae.
  4. ^ Guillén, Beatriz (2021-06-10). "El fiscal Gertz maniobra para entrar en el Sistema Nacional de Investigadores tras ser rechazado durante 11 años". El País México (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  5. ^ Sheridan, Guillermo (2021-07-06). "Gertz Manero, a la sombra del plagio". El Universal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  6. ^ Toche, Nelly (31 October 2021). "Investigadores solicitan al SNI revisar presunto plagio de Alejandro Gertz Manero". El Economista. Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  7. ^ Ureste, Manu (2022-03-28). "Cronología del caso Gertz-Cuevas: un conflicto de 7 años que podría llegar a su fin". Animal Político (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-04-15. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  8. ^ Monroy, Jorge (24 April 2022). "Acusan de tráfico de influencias al fiscal Gertz Manero". El Economista. Archived from the original on 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  9. ^ "Alejandro Gertz Manero: los autos y casas de lujo en las ciudades más exclusivas del fiscal mexicano". infobae (in Spanish). 29 March 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
  10. ^ Riva Palacio, Raymundo (27 April 2022). "Investiga EU a Gertz". El Financiero (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2022-05-15. Retrieved 2022-05-15.
allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Gertz_Manero