Sheinbaum designates Alejandro Encinas as representative of Mexico before the OAS

Who is Alejandro Encinas?

He is an economist for UNAM and was coordinator of University Extension at the Autonomous University of Chapingo.

In the presidential administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, he was Undersecretary of Human Rights, population and migration of the Ministry of the Interior, where he presided over the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice of the Ayotzinapa case.

Coordinate the Advisory Council in the Electoral Campaign in CDMX of Clara Brugada. Then he headed the transition team of the then head of elected government for the capital of the country.

He has been federal deputy three times, twice senator and once local deputy. He was head of Government of the DF from 2005 to 2006.

The Ayotzinapa case

One of the most challenging responsibilities Alejandro Encinas has had is the Ayotzinapa case. At the start of the Government, López Obrador delegated his confidence in Encinas to clarify what happened with the 43 normalist students on the night of the 26th and early in September 27, 2014.

Encinas was appointed as president of the Commission for Truth and Access to Justice in the Ayotzinapa (Covaj) case.

Under their leadership, new searches were decided to conduct new lines of research, meetings were held with the parents of the 43 students, remains were sent for their analysis in Innsbruck, Austria.

During the almost five years he was in charge of the investigation, Encinas presented two reports in the case in which he assured that there are no indications that the students are alive, he described as a state crime what happened with the young people and ruled out that there was some link between the normalists and organized crime.

In October 2023, Encinas renounced his Undersecretariat in the Interior. His departure coincided with one of the crises in the Ayotzinapa case. The parents and lawyers of the 43 students pointed to the Army as an obstacle to advance the case, in particular not to deliver key information.

The Encinas departure was lamented by the Prodh Center, which has accompanied the parents of the 43 young people.

Encinas left the Ayozinapa without resolving case, but also with a census of disappearances in Mexico in process.

Since October 5, 2024, his responsibility was in the planning and territorial planning of CDMX.