Adalberto Madero

Adalberto Arturo Madero Quiroga ( born September 25, 1969 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) is a Mexican lawyer, politician of the Partido Acción Nacional and former mayor of Monterrey. He was also a member of the Mexican Senate.

Life

Madero studied law in Mexico, in Dublin in Ireland and in the U.S. in Seattle, Washington.

Political career

In 1997, he moved into the Congress of the State of Nuevo León for his party. In 2000, he won a seat in the Mexican Senate. In 2006 he won the mayoral election of Monterrey against the candidate of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional Abel Guerra.

He was still ruled as mayor in office for corruption from the PAN.

In 2009, he was replaced by Fernando Larrazábal Breton.

On 8 October 2011, he was associated with the arson attack on the Casino Royale, in which 52 people were killed, arrested. He is said to have unlawfully issued the approval for the casino.