Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz

Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz
Governor of Nuevo León
In office
October 4, 2009 – October 3, 2015
Preceded byJosé Natividad González Parás
Succeeded byJaime Rodríguez Calderón
Personal details
Born (1972-09-09) September 9, 1972 (age 52)
Monterrey, Nuevo Leon
Political partyInstitutional Revolutionary Party

Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz (born September 9, 1972, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) is Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He served as Governor of Nuevo León from 2009 to 2015.[1] He was linked by Operation Tornado prosecution to legal proceedings against him for embezzlement, property crimes, abuse of authority and unjust enrichment among 14 other public servers, deputies and former deputies as well as relatives and partners of the politician. For that reason he was held in preventive custody on January 26, 2017.[2]

  1. ^ "Our Campaigns - Nuevo León Governor Race - Jul 05, 2009". www.ourcampaigns.com.
  2. ^ Rivera, Dora Irene. "Dan prisión preventiva a Rodrigo Medina por peculado (Rodrigo Medina's imprisonment for Embezzlement)". Milenio (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-01-26.