Pena Nieto Names Former Spy as Mexico's New Federal Anti-Crime Czar Agencia EFE
go to original March 19, 2014

Monte Alejandro Rubido García (NTX)

President Enrique Peña Nieto nominated attorney and former intelligence chief Monte Alejandro Rubido as the new chairman of Mexico's National Security Commission.

If confirmed by the Senate, Rubido will succeed Manuel Mondragon, who asked to "withdraw from the operational realm" and focus on devising strategies for law enforcement, Government Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chang.

Rubido, currently executive secretary of the National Public Safety System and the government's spokesman on law-and-order issues, has "wide experience in this field," according to Osorio Chang, Mexico's No. 2 official.

The nominee's resume includes stints as head of the Cisen intelligence agency and as deputy public safety secretary.

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