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Rosario Robles
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Rosario Robles

Former Secretary of Social Development, Key Figure in Estafa Maestra Case

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Rosario Robles Rosario Robles is a Mexican politician who served as Secretary of Social Development and Secretary of Agrarian, Territorial and Urban Development under President Enrique Peña Nieto. She was arrested in 2019 and imprisoned for her role in the "Estafa Maestra," a multi-billion-peso corruption scheme involving public funds.

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María del Rosario Robles Berlanga is a Mexican politician who served as the Secretary of Social Development in the cabinet of President Enrique Peña Nieto. She also was substitute Head of Government of the Federal District when Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas resigned from the post to run in the 2000 presidential election. She was the first female mayor of Mexico City.

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1950s
1956

Birth

Birth of Rosario Robles.

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2000s
2005

In 2005 she announced her intentions to run for the same office, although it is...

In 2005 she announced her intentions to run for the same office, although it is unclear under which party she would run, as her political image was affected by the videoscandals of that year

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2010s
2014

In 2014 she announced that social help of the "Oportunidades" social program of...

In 2014 she announced that social help of the "Oportunidades" social program of SEDESOL will not be increased for mothers with more than three children, she said that the mothers have children to get more money from the program

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2017

Published on 5 September 2017, the investigation unveiled a system of 128 ghost...

Published on 5 September 2017, the investigation unveiled a system of 128 ghost companies through which the federal government diverted more than 400 million dollars through a network of money diversions that involved 11 state agencies, eight public universities, various private companies and more t

career
2020s
2026

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2026

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