Adalberto Madero

Adalberto Arturo Madero Quiroga (born September 25, 1969 in Monterrey , Nuevo León in Mexico ) is a Mexican lawyer , politician of the Partido Acción Nacional and former mayor of Monterrey. He was also a member of the Mexican Senate .

Life

Madero studied law in Mexico, Dublin in Ireland and in the USA in Seattle and Washington .

Political career

In 1997 he entered the Nuevo León State Congress for his party . In 2000 he won a seat in the Mexican Senate. In 2006 he won the mayoral election of Monterrey against the candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional Abel Guerra .

While he was still mayor in office, he was expelled from the PAN for corruption.

In 2009 he was replaced by Fernando Larrazábal Bretón .

On October 8, 2011, he was arrested in connection with the arson attack on Casino Royale , in which 52 people were killed. He is said to have illegally issued the operating license for the casino.

Web links

• Official website of the Mayor of Monterrey ( Memento of February 26, 2009 on the Internet Archive ) (Spanish, offline)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ex-Mayor in Mexico Casino Case Arrested. (No longer available online.) In: Fox News Channel . October 10, 2011, archived from the original on October 12, 2011 ; accessed on October 14, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.