Jesús Murillo Karam

{{Short description|Mexican lawyer and politician}}

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{{Expand Spanish|topic=bio|Jesús Murillo Karam|date=July 2018}}

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{{family name hatnote|Murillo|Karam|lang=Spanish}}

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| image=Jesús Murillo Karam.jpg

| order=Attorney General of Mexico

| term_start=4 December 2012

| term_end=27 February 2015

| president=Enrique Peña Nieto

| predecessor= Marisela Morales Ibáñez

| successor =Arely Gómez González

| office2 = President of the Chamber of Deputies

| term_start2 = 1 September 2012

| term_end2 = 4 December 2012

| predecessor2 = Óscar Martín Arce Paniagua

| successor2 = Francisco Arroyo Vieyra

| order3=Governor of Hidalgo

| term_start3=1 April 1993

| term_end3=28 October 1998

| predecessor3= Adolfo Lugo Verduzco

| successor3= Humberto Lugo Gil

| birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1948|3|2|df=y}}

| birth_place= Real del Monte, Hidalgo

| spouse=

| party= Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

| alma_mater= Autonomous University of Hidalgo

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Jesús Murillo Karam (born 2 March 1947) is a Mexican lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).{{cite book|last=Grayson|first=George W.|title=Mexico: narco-violence and a failed state?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ogjkeCd7RGoC&pg=PA145|access-date=24 April 2011|year=2010|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-1151-4|page=145}} Born in Real del Monte, Hidalgo, he is of Lebanese{{cite web|url=http://www.excelsior.com.mx/2012/09/02/nacional/856900|title=Jesús Murillo Karam, artífice del triunfo presidencial|date=2 September 2012}}{{cite web |url=http://revista.impacto.mx/opinion/x7W/presencia-de-m%C3%A9xico-en-el-mundo-liban%C3%A9s |title=Presencia de México en el mundo libanés | Opinión | Impacto |accessdate=2014-09-04 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210012226/http://revista.impacto.mx/opinion/x7W/presencia-de-m%C3%A9xico-en-el-mundo-liban%C3%A9s |archivedate=2014-12-10 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.elperiodicodesaltillo.com/2013/2013%20abril/augusto2.html |title=El Periódico de Saltillo |publisher=Elperiodicodesaltillo.com |date= |accessdate=2023-02-01}} descent.

Murillo Karam was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1979 mid-terms (for Hidalgo's 4th district) and again in the 1985 general election (for Hidalgo's 6th district), and to the Senate in 1991.{{cite web |title=Perfil: Diputado Jesús Murillo Karam |url=http://sil.gobernacion.gob.mx/Librerias/pp_PerfilLegislador.php?SID=&Referencia=9216757#Perfil |website=Sistema de Información Legislativa |publisher=SEGOB |access-date=24 June 2024}}

He served as governor of Hidalgo from 1993 to 1998. In 1998 he became Undersecretary of Public Security and then joined the campaign of Francisco Labastida in the 2000 presidential election.

In the 2006 general election he was re-elected as a senator for his state, and in February 2007, he was elected general secretary of his party with Beatriz Paredes as president. He was president of the Commission of Interior in the Senate. In September 2012, he was elected to the 62nd Congress as a plurinominal deputy, during which he served as the president of the Chamber of Deputies. He later passed his seat to his alternate to become attorney general.

He became Attorney General of Mexico (PGR) on 4 December 2012 and resigned on 27 February 2015 to head the Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development.{{cite news|last=Torres|first=Manuel|title=Jesús Murillo Karam es ratificado por el Senado como nuevo procurador|url=http://mexico.cnn.com/nacional/2012/12/04/murillo-karam-espera-ratificacion-del-senado-como-titular-de-la-pgr|accessdate=4 December 2012|newspaper=CNNMéxico|date=4 December 2012|language=Spanish}}

In August 2022 Murillo Karam was arrested over multiple charges (torture, forced disappearances, and offences against the administration of justice) related to the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping during his tenure as attorney general.{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/19/americas/jess-murillo-karam-mexico-missing-students-intl-latam/index.html|title=Former attorney general of Mexico arrested over multiple charges related to disappearance of 43 students|date=20 August 2022}} The case against Murillo Karam was later suspended by a judge who "openly admonished the new prosecutors for shoddy work".{{cite news |last1=Kitroeff |first1=Natalie |last2=Bergman |first2=Ronen |last3=Lopez |first3=Oscar |title=Evidence 'Invalidated' in Explosive Report on Mexico's 43 Missing Students |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/world/americas/mexico-iguala-missing-kidnapped-students.html |access-date=26 April 2024 |work=New York Times |date=26 October 2022}} On 13 April 2024 he was released from incarceration and placed under house arrest at his home in Mexico City.{{cite news |last1=Torres |first1=Mauricio |title=El exprocurador Jesús Murillo Karam, acusado en el caso Ayotzinapa, cumple prisión domiciliaria |url=https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2024/04/13/el-exprocurador-jesus-murillo-karam-acusado-en-el-caso-ayotzinapa-cumple-prision-domiciliaria/ |access-date=27 April 2024 |agency=CNN |language=Spanish |date=13 April 2024}}

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{{succession box | before =Gerardo Sosa Castelán | title=Senator in the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress | years=2006–2009*| after = Roberto Pedraza Martínez (interim)}}

{{succession box | before = Adolfo Lugo Verduzco | title = Governor of Hidalgo | years = 1993–1998| after = Humberto Lugo Gil}}

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* Requested a leave of absence to leave his post to serve as general secretary of his party.