Macedo de la Concha
Macedo de la Concha (officer, lawyer) | ||||||||||||
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Born | May 6, 1950 Mexico City | |||||||||||
Nationality | Mexican | |||||||||||
Alma mater | UNAM | |||||||||||
Mexican army general and former Attorney General in the cabinet of Vicente Fox.
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Rafael Macedo de la Concha is a Mexican army general and former Attorney General in the cabinet of Vicente Fox (December 1, 2000 – April 27, 2005).
Education
He has a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and is a Brigadier General of Military Justice from the Military College.
Macedo de la Concha has taught several law courses at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and at the Latin American University, where he chaired the law program. He has been assistant director of the Legal Fiduciary Department of the National Bank of Army, Navy and Air Force (Banjército) as well as judge and first magistrate of the Supreme Military Court.
In 2005 he led the judicial process for contempt against the Head of Government of the Federal District, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which finally led to his impeachment. After popular protests against this, Concha resigned from office on April 27, 2005.
After 2005, he was military attaché at the Mexican Embassy in Rome.