Pena Nieto put forward Raul Cervantes, a senator from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to replace Arely Gomez as attorney general, another PRI senator who assumed the job during a period of turmoil in March 2015.
Her tenure was overshadowed by criticism of the government’s investigation of the disappearances of 43 trainee students in southwest Mexico in September 2014, a scandal that dogged her predecessor, Jesus Murillo.
Under Murillo, the government found the 43 had been abducted by corrupt police and handed over to members of a drug cartel, who murdered and incinerated them in the belief that . . .
