José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Mexican lawyer and civil servant
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About José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos
- José Luis Santiago Vasconcelos (7 June 1957 – 4 November 2008) was a Mexican lawyer, politician and civil servant.Santiago Vasconcelos, a native of Mexico City, earned a law degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
- In 1993 he began working for the office of the federal Attorney-General (PGR), in the drug-trafficking control area.
- He was later appointed Assistant Attorney-General for Legal and International Affairs and, following that appointment, served as Assistant Attorney-General at the Organized Crime Specialized Investigation Office (SIEDO), Mexico's top anti-drug prosecutor.
- The last position he held was as head of the PGR's technical secretariat for implementing the recent constitutional reforms on criminal justice and public security. He died on 4 November 2008 when the aircraft he was traveling on crashed in Mexico City.
- This accident also claimed the life of his friend, Secretary of the Interior Juan Camilo Mouriño.
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