Adalberto Arturo Madero Quiroga (born September 25, 1969) is a Mexican

Mexico

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 lawyer and right-wing politician from Nuevo León

Nuevo León

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 who has served in the upper house

Senate of Mexico

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 of the Mexican Congress

Congress of Mexico

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. He was the municipal president of Monterrey

Municipal president of Monterrey

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 from 2006 to 2009.

Personal life and education

Madero is the son of Armando Arturo Madero Almada and Nieves Quiroga de Madero. He studied law in Mexico and pursued studies in Dublin, Ireland and in Seattle, Washington, U.S.

United States

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. He has speech disfluency

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 problems.

Political career

Madero is a member of the National Action Party

National Action Party (Mexico)

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 (PAN). He has been legal advisor

Legal advice

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 to various PAN public servants in his native Nuevo León and has occupied different positions inside his party including Undersecretary of Finance.

He served as local deputy in the Congress of Nuevo León

Congress of Nuevo León

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 from 1997 to 2000. In 2000 he became one of the youngest senators to serve in Congress. In 2006 he won the elections for municipal president (mayor) of Monterrey defeating the Institutional Revolutionary Party

Institutional Revolutionary Party

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 (PRI) candidate Abel Guerra

Abel Guerra

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Corruption

During his administration as Municipal President(2006 -2009), numerous cases of corruption were exposed, such as the proliferation of gambling centers and casinos derived from bribes of casino owners, according to a cable from Wikileaks titled "09MONTERREY259"http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=09MONTERREY259, Madero received 2.5 million US dollars from casino owners in order for Madero to concede them municipal licenses so they could operate, along with a monthly payment. The people who bribed Madero were the owners of Casino Royale, where 52 people died in a fire because of the lack of an emergency exit.http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/08/26/mexico.attack/index.html

He has been arrested twice for acts during his administration.http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/10/10/ex-mayor-in-mexico-casino-case-arrested/

Due to his notorious scandals and allegations of corruption the Political Party "PAN" tried to expel Madero from its membership.http://www.statesman.com/news/nation/mexico-ruling-party-asks-mayor-governor-step-down-1824428.html

Nepotism, more precisely favoritism, also marred his political career. He appointed as Administration Officer his personal driver, Guillermo Blanco, who had no previous political or educational background.

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