Enrique Peña Nieto - wikipedia Enrique Peña Nieto This name uses Spanish naming customs : the first or paternal family name is Peña and the second or maternal family name is Nieto. Enrique Peña Nieto 57th President of Mexico Incumbent Assumed office 1 December 2012 Preceded by Felipe Calderón Succeeded by Andrés Manuel López Obrador ( elect ) President pro tempore of the Pacific Alliance In office 20 June 2014 -- 3 July 2015 Preceded by Juan Manuel Santos Succeeded by Ollanta Humala Governor of the State of Mexico In office 16 September 2005 -- 16 September 2011 Preceded by Arturo Montiel Rojas Succeeded by Eruviel Ávila Villegas President of the National Conference of Governors In office 1 March 2008 -- 25 April 2008 Preceded by Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez Succeeded by Eduardo Bours In office 7 March 2006 -- 19 May 2006 Preceded by Juan Carlos Romero Hicks Succeeded by Ney González Sánchez Local deputy of the Congress of the State of Mexico for the 13th local district In office 5 September 2003 -- 14 January 2005 Preceded by Arturo Osornio Sánchez Succeeded by Héctor Eduardo Velasco Monroy Secretary of Administration of the State of Mexico In office 11 May 2000 -- 4 December 2002 Governor Arturo Montiel Rojas Preceded by Ernesto Nemer Álvarez Succeeded by Luis Miranda Nava Personal details ( 1966 - 07 - 20 ) 20 July 1966 ( age 52 ) Atlacomulco, State of Mexico, Mexico Political party Institutional Revolutionary Party Spouse ( s ) Mónica Pretelini Sáenz ( m. 1993 ; d. 2007 ) Angélica Rivera ( m. 2010 ) Children 5 Residence Los Pinos Alma mater Panamerican University Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Signature Enrique Peña Nieto ( Spanish pronunciation : ( enˈrike ˈpeɲa ˈnjeto ) ( listen ) ; born 20 July 1966 ), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician serving as the 57th President of Mexico, since 2012. He previously served in the State of Mexico as Secretary of Administration ( 2000 -- 2002 ), Representative ( 2003 -- 2004 ), and Governor ( 2005 -- 2011 ). Born in Atlacomulco and raised in Toluca, both in the State of Mexico, Peña Nieto attended Panamerican University graduating with a B.A. in legal studies. He began his political career after attaining an M.B.A. from ITESM, by joining the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) in 1984. After serving as a public notary in Mexico City, he began an ascension through local political ranks in the late 1990s culminating in his 2005 campaign for Governor of the State of Mexico. As governor, he pledged to deliver 608 compromisos ( promises ) to his constituency to varying levels of success. His tenure was marked by low - to - moderate approval of his handling of a rising murder rate and various public health issues. He launched his presidential campaign on a platform of economic competitiveness and open government. After performing well in polls and a series of high - profile candidate withdrawals, Peña Nieto was elected president with 38.14 % of the vote. During his first four years, Peña Nieto led an expansive breakup of monopolies, liberalized Mexico 's energy sector, reformed public education, and modernized the country 's financial regulation. However, political gridlock, allegations of media bias, gradually worsened corruption, crime, and drug trade in Mexico. He instated the multi-lateral Pact for Mexico which soothed inter-party fighting and led to increased legislation across the political spectrum. Global drops in oil prices and economic slowdown of the 2010s, rendered his economic reforms moderately successful which lowered political support for Peña Nieto. His handling of the Iguala mass kidnapping in 2014 and escaped drug lord Joaquín `` El Chapo '' Guzmán from Altiplano prison in 2015 sparked domestic and international criticism. An unprecedented number of corruption scandals involving figures of the PRI, such as Andrés Granier Melo, Javier Duarte, César Duarte Jáquez, Humberto Moreira, Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz, Roberto Borge Angulo and even the First Lady Angélica Rivera, further worsened the public 's perception of the PRI, which suffered the worst defeat of its history in the 2018 general elections. Historical evaluations and approval rates of his presidency have been mostly negative. Detractors highlight a series of failed policies and a strained public presence while supporters note increased economic competitiveness and loosening of gridlock. He began his term with an approval rate of 50 %, hovered around 35 % during his inter-years and finally bottomed out at 12 % in January 2017. Peña Nieto is seen as one of the most controversial and least popular presidents in the history of Mexico. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Political beginnings 2.1 Campaign for Governor 3 Governor of the State of Mexico ( 2005 -- 2011 ) 4 Presidential campaign 4.1 Elections 5 Presidency ( 2012 -- present ) 5.1 Economic policy 5.1. 1 Special economic zones 5.2 Domestic policy 5.3 Security policy 5.4 Energy policy 5.5 Foreign policy 5.5. 1 2016 visit by Donald Trump 5.5. 2 Trump 's presidency and border wall 5.6 Controversies 5.6. 1 Social media manipulation and publicity excess 5.6. 2 Ayotzinapa 5.6. 3 Carmen Aristegui 5.6. 4 Allegations of espionage on journalists 5.6. 5 Allegations of corruption 6 Public image 6.1 Media gaffes 6.2 Allegations of media bias 6.3 Evaluations as president and legacy 7 Personal life 7.1 Ancestry 7.2 Family life 8 Honors 9 See also 10 References 11 External links Early life and education Enrique Peña Nieto was born on 20 July 1966 in Atlacomulco, State of Mexico, a city 55 miles ( 89 km ) northwest of Mexico City. He is the oldest of four siblings ; his father, Gilberto Enrique Peña del Mazo, was an electrical engineer ; his mother, María del Perpetuo Socorro Ofelia Nieto Sánchez, a schoolteacher. He is the nephew of two former governors of the State of México : on his mother 's side, Arturo Montiel ; on his father 's, Alfredo del Mazo González. He attended Denis Hall School in Alfred, Maine, during one year of junior high school in 1979 to learn English. After living in Atlacomulco for the first 11 years of his life, Peña Nieto 's family moved to the city of Toluca. In 1975, his father would often take him to the campaign rallies of the State of Mexico 's governor, Jorge Jiménez Cantú, a close friend of Peña del Mazo The successor of the governor was Alfredo del Mazo González, a cousin of Peña Nieto 's father. During Del Mazo González 's campaign in 1981, the fifteen - year - old Peña Nieto had his first direct contact with Mexican politics : he began delivering campaign literature in favor of his relative, a memory Peña Nieto recalls as the turning point and start of his deep interest in politics. In 1984 at the age of 18, Peña Nieto traveled to Mexico City and enrolled in the Panamerican University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts ( BA ) degree in legal studies. Peña Nieto 's academic thesis was found to contain some improper citations and plagiarism which stirred controversy in May 2016. Peña Nieto sought a master 's degree in Business Administration ( MBA ) at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey ( ITESM ), based in the State of Mexico. Peña Nieto can speak English, however, he speaks Spanish in formal settings. Political beginnings Peña Nieto joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) in 1984, and with a law degree nearly completed, he began earning his own money. During his final years in college, Peña Nieto worked for a public notary in Mexico City, around the same time when his relative, Alfredo del Mazo González, was mentioned as a firm candidate for the 1988 presidential elections. In his twenties, he worked at the San Luis Industrial Corporation, an auto parts manufacturer, and at the law firm Laffan, Muse and Kaye. While still a student at the Universidad Panamericana, he roomed with Eustaquio de Nicolás, the current president of Homex, a leading Mexican construction and real estate company. He also befriended and roomed with Luis Miranda, who occupied several offices during the 1999 -- 2000 administration in the State of Mexico. Peña Nieto formally started his political career under the mentorship of Montiel Rojas, becoming the Secretary of the Citizen Movement of Zone I of the State Directive Committee of the National Confederation of Popular Organizations ( CNOP ), one of the three sectors of the PRI. For three consecutive years, Peña Nieto participated as a delegate to the Organization and Citizen Front in different municipalities of the State of Mexico. Then, between 1993 and 1998, during Emilio Chuayfett 's term as governor, Peña Nieto was chief of staff and personal secretary to Montiel Rojas, the Secretary of Economic Development of the State of Mexico. After 1999, Peña Nieto went from having low - level secretary positions to higher and more qualified offices. He served from 1999 to 2000 as the Sub-secretary of Government, and as financial sub-coordinator of the political campaign of Montiel Rojas. In 2001, Montiel Rojas named Peña Nieto Sub-secretary of Interior in the State of Mexico, a position that granted him the opportunity to meet and forge relationships with top PRI politicians and wealthy businessmen. After his term concluded, he served as the administrative secretary, as president of the Directive Council of Social Security, as president of the Internal Council of Health, and as vice president of the National System for Integral Family Development -- all in the State of Mexico. Under the wing of Montiel Rojas, Peña Nieto formed a group known as the `` Golden Boys of Atlacomulco '' with other members of the PRI. Campaign for governor Peña Nieto was elected to a local deputy position in his hometown of Atlacomulco, State of Mexico, in 2003. Two years later, the governorship of the State of Mexico was sought by Atlacomulco - natives Carlos Hank Rhon, Isidro Pastor, Héctor Luna de la Vega, Guillermo González Martínez, Óscar Gustavo Cárdenas Monroy, Eduardo Bernal Martínez, Cuauhtémoc García Ortega and Fernando Alberto García Cuevas. Peña Nieto was among the crowd, but was not poised as one of the favorites. Nonetheless, in 2005, Peña Nieto was the last man standing, succeeding Montiel Rojas as governor of the State of Mexico. On 12 February 2005, with 15,000 supporters in attendance, he was sworn - in as candidate for the PRI. Governor of the State of Mexico ( 2005 -- 2011 ) Peña Nieto at the World Economic Forum ( 2010 ) On 15 September 2005, Peña Nieto was sworn as governor of the State of Mexico at the Morelos theater in Toluca. Among the hundreds of attendees were the outgoing governor, Arturo Montiel ; the president of the Superior Court of Justice, José Castillo Ambriz ; former governors, members of Peña Nieto 's cabinet and party, mayors, businessmen, and church figures. The centerpiece of Peña Nieto 's governorship was his claim that he was to deliver his compromisos -- 608 promises he signed in front of a notary to convince voters that he would deliver results and be an effective leader. According to El Universal, during Peña Nieto 's first year as governor, his administration delivered 10 of the structural promises he had advocated in his campaign -- marking the lowest figure in his six - year term. By 2006, his administration carried out 141 of the promised projects, making that year the most active in the governor 's term. The 608 projects Peña Nieto proposed consisted of creating highways, building hospitals, and creating adequate water systems to provide fresh water throughout the state. The most important of these was highway infrastructure, which tripled under Peña 's government. By mid-2011, the official page of the State of Mexico noted that only two projects were left. The major projects in public transportation were the Suburban Railway of the Valley of Mexico Metropolitan Area and the `` Mexibús '', both of which served commuters between Mexico City and the State of Mexico, providing service to more than 300,000 people every day and 100 million a year. Regarding public health services, 196 hospitals and medical centers were built throughout the state and the number of mobile units to attend remote and vulnerable areas doubled. Deaths caused by respiratory diseases were reduced by 55 %, while deaths caused by dysentery and cervical cancer were reduced by 68 % and 25 % respectively. In addition, between 2005 and 2011, the State of Mexico was able to fulfill the requirement of the World Health Organization of having one doctor for every 1,000 inhabitants. The funds for these and all the other commitments were obtained through restructuring the state 's public debt, a strategy designed by his first Secretary of Finance, Luis Videgaray Caso. The restructuring also managed to keep the debt from increasing during Peña Nieto 's term because the tax base was broadened to the point that it doubled in six years. Peña Nieto also claimed that he halved the murder rate in the State of Mexico during his time as governor, but retracted this claim after The Economist showed that the murder rate did not diminish and was being measured in a different way. The Yo Soy 132 student movement criticized Peña Nieto for his stance on the San Salvador Atenco unrest, which occurred during his term as governor. Peña Nieto stated in an interview that he does not justify the actions of the state and municipal forces, but also mentioned that they were not gladly received by the citizens of San Salvador Atenco upon their arrival. Presidential campaign Peña Nieto campaigning in 2012 On 23 November 2011, Peña Nieto went to a book fair in Casa del Lago, Mexico City. There he presented his book México, la gran esperanza ( Mexico, the great hope ). He was accompanied by writer Héctor Aguilar Camín, the former governor of Mexico 's Central Bank, Guillermo Ortiz Martínez, and the journalist Jaime Sánchez Susarrey. In the book, Peña Nieto argued that Mexico needed to expand its economy to create more jobs, insisting that in the past the country has only created jobs in the informal sector. Additionally, he argued that promoting Pemex ( Mexico 's state - owned oil company ) to compete in the private sector would create more jobs, elevate productivity, and balance wealth distribution across Mexico. Nonetheless, Peña Nieto dedicated the book to his wife Angélica Rivera and to governor Eruviel Ávila Villegas and his family. Peña Nieto said that the return of the PRI marks a new era in Mexico, and that his book served as a starting point to take Mexico `` to better horizons. '' On 27 November 2011, a few days after the book fair, Peña Nieto was the PRI 's last standing nominee for the 2012 Mexican presidential elections. The former State of Mexico governor completed his nomination at an event that gathered sympathizers and politicians. Six days earlier, the senator and preliminary candidate of the PRI, Manlio Fabio Beltrones, withdrew from the race and gave Peña Nieto a clear path towards the presidency. During a book fair a month later, Peña Nieto 's public image came into question after he struggled to answer a question that asked which three books had marked his life. Later, Peña Nieto was interviewed by El País and admitted that he did not know the price of tortillas. When he was criticized as being out of touch, Peña Nieto insisted that he was not `` the woman of the household '' and thus would not know the price. Elections See also : Mexican general election, 2012 On 1 July 2012, Mexico 's presidential election took place. In an initial, partial count issued that night, the Federal Electoral Institute ( IFE ) announced that based on a fast vote counting, Peña Nieto was leading the election with 38 % of the votes. His nearest competitor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was just 6 points behind him. The figures were meant to be a representative sample of the votes nationwide ; but shortly after this announcement, Peña Nieto appeared on national television claiming victory. `` This Sunday, Mexico won, '' he said. He then thanked his voters and promised to run a government `` responsible and open to criticism. '' At the PRI headquarters in Mexico City, the victory party began. With more than 97 % of the votes counted on election day, the PRI had won with about 38 % of the votes, just 6.4 points above the leftist candidate López Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ), who refused to concede to the results and had threatened to challenge the outcome. Presidency ( 2012 -- present ) Peña Nieto was sworn - in as President of Mexico on 1 December 2012 at the federal congress and later flew to a military parade to formally take control of the armed forces. During his inauguration speech at the National Palace, Peña Nieto proposed his agendas and reforms for the new administration. Before and after the inauguration, in an event that has been labeled by the media as the 1DMX, protesters rioted outside of the National Palace and clashed with Federal Police forces, vandalizing hotel structures and setting fires in downtown Mexico City. More than 90 protesters were arrested and several were injured. Mayor Marcelo Ebrard blamed anarchist groups for the violence. However, there is evidence that agents of provocation worked with the police, paid 300 Mexican pesos ( about US $20 ) for their acts of vandalism, according to media reports. Photos show the vandals waiting in groups behind police lines prior to the violence. Previous protests had been entirely peaceful, but on this occasion, in apparent response to violence, the police fired rubber bullets. The day after his inauguration, Peña Nieto announced the Pact for Mexico, an agreement that he had struck with the leaders of the two other major parties at the time, Jesús Zambrano Grijalva of the Party of the Democratic Revolution and Gustavo Madero Muñoz of the National Action Party, about the government 's goals for the next few years. Economic Policy Peña Nieto and Takanobu Ito at the inauguration of the Honda plant in Celaya, Guanajuato on 21 February 2014. The auto manufacturing industry expanded rapidly under Nieto 's presidency. In 2014, more than US $10 billion was committed in investment in the sector. In conjunction with Kia Motors in August 2014, the president announced plans for Kia to build a US $1 billion factory in Nuevo León. At the time, Mercedes - Benz and Nissan were already building a US $1.4 billion plant near Puebla, while BMW was planning a US $1 billion assembly plant in San Luis Potosí. Audi began building a US $1.3 billion factory near Puebla in 2013. As of December 2014, two years into Peña Nieto 's term, total investment in the auto sector in Mexico had reached US $19 billion. The Bajío Region has received the majority of this investment, and with its rapidly expanding aerospace industry has become the fastest - growing region in the country. In February 2014, Time was met with controversy for the release of a cover featuring Enrique Peña Nieto and the legend Saving Mexico ( written by Michael Crowley ), as the cover article 's title inside the magazine. The controversial article praised the president and his cabinet for reforms like opening oil fields for foreign investment for the first time in 75 years ( a reform towards which Mexican citizens have shown mixed feelings ), ending the Mexican drug wars ( which was not completely accurate ), and even going as far as saying `` the opposition party blocked major reforms that were necessary '', that `` American leaders could learn a thing or two from their resurgent southern neighbor '' and saying Mexicans citizens ' `` alarms were replaced with applause ''. According to the Mexican Social Security Institute ( IMSS ), between December 2012 and June 2016, more than two million jobs were created in Mexico. Of those jobs, 41 % were taken by women and 36 % were taken by individuals between 20 and 34 years of age. IMSS also revealed that 86 % were long - term jobs and 14 % were temporary. These jobs have led to a 26 % increase in revenue accumulation for IMSS, an additional MXN $50 billion. More than half a million jobs had salaries worth five minimum wages ( about MXN $10,000 per month ) and there was a 22 % increase in jobs with salaries greater than 20 minimum wages. Special economic zones Peña Nieto with Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, 8 July 2017 At the end of May 2016, Peña Nieto signed a law that will create special economic zones in economically underdeveloped southern states. The first three are : Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán ; Port Chiapas, Chiapas ; and in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to better join the ports of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz and Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. Another zone in the petroleum region of Tabasco and Campeche, hit by the downturn in the oil industry, is planned for 2017. The special economic zones are meant to alleviate the lack of industry in the South. During the signing, Peña Nieto highlighted the difference between the South and the industrial North and Center of Mexico : two of every three people in extreme poverty in Mexico live in the southern states. While the three poorest states ( Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero ) have about 10 % of the population, they only receive $1 of every $36 in foreign direct investment in the country. He went on to say that there are two Mexicos : one `` that competes and wins in the global economy, with growing levels of income, development and well - being '', while the other Mexico `` has been left behind ( and ) has n't been able to take advantage of its potential. '' The special economic zones will offer tax incentives ( exemption from the 16 % VAT ), trade and customs benefits and the streamlining of regulatory processes. There will also be an increase in infrastructure spending in these regions. Private administrators will run the zones on 40 - year contracts ( managing infrastructure and attracting tenants ). According to Peña Nieto, at the latest, each of these zones will have an anchor tenant that will attract suppliers and other industries in the supply chain by 2018. The World Bank advised Mexico during the formulation of the special economic zones plan. Domestic Policy Peña Nieto enacted a massive public education reform that would tame the powerful teachers ' union, Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Educación ( SNTE ), improve standards, centralize the process for hiring, evaluating, promoting and retaining teachers, and crack down on rampant corruption -- such as wages for non-existent `` ghost teachers ''. Five years after its signing, the plan has barely affected standards : Mexico still ranks last in education among the 35 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development countries and the Secretariat of Public Education spent more money on communications ( 2,700 % more on communications in 2017 than was budgeted ) than on teacher training. Security Policy Main article : Security policy of the Enrique Peña Nieto administration President Enrique Peña Nieto and Secretary of Foreign Affairs Claudia Ruiz Massieu visit the monument to the 201st Fighter Squadron in Manila, November 2015. While campaigning, Peña Nieto appointed a former general of the National Police of Colombia as his external advisor for public security, and promised to reduce the murder rate in Mexico by 50 % by the end of his six - year term. Critics of Peña Nieto 's security strategy, however, said that he offered `` little sense '' in exactly how he will reduce the violence. During the three - month campaign, Peña Nieto was not explicit on his anti-crime strategy, and many analysts wondered whether he was holding back politically sensitive details or simply did not know how he would attempt to squelch the violence and carry out the next stage in Mexico 's drug war. United States officials were worried that the election of Peña Nieto 's Institutional Revolutionary Party may mean a return to the old PRI tactics of `` corruption ( and ) backroom deals '' with the cartels in exchange for bribes and relative peace. In 2012, the president - elect emphasized that he did not support the involvement or presence of armed United States agents in Mexico, but considered allowing the United States to instruct Mexico 's military training in counterinsurgency tactics. Beyond that, Peña Nieto promised that no other measures will be taken by the States in Mexico. The security policy of Peña Nieto has prioritized the reduction of violence rather than attacking Mexico 's drug - trafficking organizations head - on, marking a departure from the strategy of the previous six years during Felipe Calderón 's administration. One of the biggest contrasts is the focus on lowering murder rates, kidnappings, and extortions, as opposed to arresting or killing the country 's most - wanted drug lords and intercepting their drug shipments. On 13 December 2012, a law was approved that included far - reaching security reforms. Mexico 's Interior Ministry, greatly strengthened by the bill, was made solely responsible for public security. Part of Peña Nieto 's strategy consists of the creation of a national police of 40,000 members, known as a `` gendarmerie ''. The Economist reported that the gendarmerie would have an initial strength of 10,000, but the Washington Office on Latin America reported that it was reduced to 5,000 members and would not be operational until July 2014. The Interior Ministry announced that 15 specialized police units were being formed to exclusively focus on major crimes that include kidnapping and extortion, along with a new task force dedicated to tracking missing persons. Peña Nieto also proposed centralizing the sub-federal police forces under one command. In December 2017, the Law of Internal Security was passed by legislation but was met with criticism, especially from the National Human Rights Commission, accusing it gave the President a blank check. Energy Policy NAFTA leaders U.S. President Barack Obama, Mexican President Peña Nieto, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, 2014 During the presidential campaign, Peña Nieto promised to open Pemex, Mexico 's state - owned oil company, to the private sector. He also indicated interest in an economic agreement with Petrobras, Brazil 's oil company. By giving more economic freedom to Pemex, investors say Peña Nieto 's proposal could allow joint ventures and private investment in the oil company. According to the Financial Times in 2012, Peña Nieto 's PRI government, which held just over 38 % of the votes in Congress, might have difficulty gaining a majority to pass such reforms, or the two - thirds majority needed to change the Mexican constitution. Pemex was founded through the nationalization of foreign oil interests, and the Mexican constitution bans major outside investments. Changing Pemex could transform the psychology of Mexico 's business sector and involve cultural and political changes that can not be rushed. President Lázaro Cárdenas seized foreign oil company assets in 1938 to form Pemex, which has served as a symbol of national identity. Eric Martin of Bloomberg News stated that if Peña Nieto wants to invite investment, he will have to face the challenges of union leaders and local officials who have benefited from the oil company 's bonanza. Productivity in Pemex has been declining since 2004. Peña Nieto declared while campaigning that overhauling Pemex will be the PRI 's and his `` signature issue '', and that he will encourage private companies to invest in exploration and development activities. Following Peña Nieto 's hike in the price of gasoline as a result of his privatization of the Mexican oil industry, protests erupted nation - wide. Protestors blockaded major highways, forced border crossings to be closed and shut down gas stations. Foreign Policy This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. ( August 2018 ) Peña Nieto at the Élysée Palace with French President Emmanuel Macron, 2017 2016 visit by Donald Trump See also : Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016 and Mexico -- United States barrier Peña Nieto meets with Donald Trump at the G20 Hamburg summit, July 2017 Peña Nieto invited U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to visit on 31 August 2016, and appeared with him in a press conference. Peña Nieto was criticized for extending the invitation to Trump, and following the conference, journalist Jorge Ramos criticized Peña Nieto for not using the opportunity to publicly contradict Trump 's campaign promise to make Mexico pay for his proposed Mexico -- United States border wall, as well as Ramos called Trump 's `` attacks on Latin American immigrants, his rejection of free trade agreements and his scorn for global organizations. '' Despite this, Peña Nieto stated on his Twitter that he made it clear to Trump that Mexico would not pay for the wall, only to shortly after get a reply from Donald Trump saying : `` Mexico will pay for the wall ! '' Trump 's presidency and border wall See also : 2017 Mexico -- United States diplomatic crisis Peña Nieto and Trump were to meet on 26 January 2017, until Trump wrote on his Twitter account : `` If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting ''. This directly led Peña Nieto to cancel his visit to the U.S. President. In an interview with Aristegui Noticias, Washington periodist Dolia Estévez said she obtained access to part of a one - hour phone conversation between the two presidents the day of the scheduled meeting. She stated, `` Trump humiliated Peña Nieto, '' and said that the conversation only lasted 20 minutes ; she also explained that the speech was prolonged to an hour due to translation efforts because Peña Nieto does n't understand English. While many media outlets praised Peña Nieto for cancelling the visit with Trump, Forbes Mexico stated that despite showing support towards Peña Nieto for cancelling such event, `` that should n't translate in forgiveness to what happens within our country ( Mexico ) '' adding that `` a state incapable of bringing credibility and stability could not grow '', and that more than Trump, the thing keeping Mexico from prosperity was the corruption within the Mexican government. Controversies Social media manipulation and publicity excess As of July 2017, Oxford University 's Computational Propaganda Research Project claimed Mexico 's social media manipulation ( Peñabots ) to come directly from the Mexican Government itself. A December 2017 article of The New York Times, reported Enrique Peña Nieto spending about 2 billion dollars on publicity, during his first 5 years as president, the largest publicity budget ever spent by a Mexican President. Ayotzinapa In September 2014, 43 male college students were forcibly taken then disappeared in Guerrero. The forced mass disappearance of the students arguably became the biggest political and public security scandal Peña Nieto had faced during his administration. It led to nationwide protests, particularly in the state of Guerrero and Mexico City, and international condemnation. Carmen Aristegui In November 2014, an article was published by journalist Carmen Aristegui, indicating that a $7 million house owned by Enrique Peña Nieto and his wife Angelica Rivera, in Lomas de Chapultepec was registered under the name of a company affiliated with a business group that had received government contracts to build a bullet train. The revelation about the potential conflict of interest in the acquisition of the house aggravated discontent about the government. Rivera released a video in which she detailed her income as a former soap opera actress, stating that she was selling the house and that the property was not under her name because she had not made the full payment yet. Shortly after revealing the Mexican White House incident, Carmen Aristegui was controversially fired from her radio show at MVS Communications. As noted by The New York Times, Aristegui being fired was a perceived as a censorship towards news journalism and the liberty given by the freedom of speech. Aristegui took it trial and by June 2018, three years after MVS fired her, the jury determined that it was indeed unconstitutional and against the law, to fire her and indeed was an act of censorship towards the freedom of speech. Peña Nieto 's successor in the presidency of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, promised Aristegui would be free to return to radio if she wanted and that there would be no more unfair censorship towards the freedom of speech. In 2016, Aristegui revealed in a special report arguing that Enrique Peña Nieto could have committed plagiarism on his law thesis, at least a third of it, with 197 out of 682 paragraphs being unsourced or wrongly sourced works. Allegations of espionage on journalists During his tenure as president, Peña Nieto has been accused of failing to protect news journalists, whose deaths are speculated to be politically triggered, by politicians attempting to prevent them from covering political scandals. The New York Times published a news report on the matter titled, `` In Mexico it 's easy to kill a journalist '', on it mentioning how Mexico became one of the worst countries in which to be a journalist. On 19 June 2017, The New York Times in conjunction with news reporter Carmen Aristegui, and even backed by a Televisa news reporter Carlos Loret de Mola, reported that the Mexican Government uses a spyware software known as Pegasus, to spy on targets such as Mexican News reporters ( and their families ) and Civil Rights Leaders ( and their families ) using text messages as lures. Since 2011, the Mexican Government invested $80 million worth of spyware. Pegasus spyware infiltrates a persons cellphone and reports every detail of their messages, e-mails, contacts and calendars. Allegations of corruption The New York Times published an article of December 2017, describing accusations towards Peña Nieto 's government blocking its own investigations against corruption in the Mexican government, with a commissioner saying the Mexican government preventing the establishment of an impartial leader in the FEPADE in charge of investigating political corruption. Previously mentioned 22 ex-governors all members of the PRI political party are investigated for corruption with only five jailed. By March 2018 in the dawn of the next presidential election, the PGR made official an investigation regarding PAN 's candidate Ricardo Anaya laundering money. Ex-chief of FEPADE ( the Mexican government 's branch focused on political crimes ), Santiago Nieto, whom the previous October had been controversially removed from his job as chief of FEPADE, coincidentally right after starting an investigation regarding illicit campaign money from the 2012 presidential campaign, received by Peña Nieto and would be president of Pemex, Emilio Lozoya from the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht. The ex-chief of FEPADE, said that the accusations towards Anaya were minor in comparison to Odebretch and Peña Nieto scandal, adding also the same opinion about the money lost by SEDESOL, to corrupt governors from the PRI such as Javier Duarte and Cesar Duarte, all while PRI 's presidential candidate Jose Antonio Meade was the man in charge of SEDESOL ( the scandal is known as `` La Estafa Maestra ( The Master Robbery ) '' and about $435 million pesos were lost ). The same week the PRI legislators were criticized for voting towards stopping the investigation of Odebretch against the wishes of Mexican people and organizations against corruption such as `` Mexicanos contra la corrupcion ( Mexicans against Corruption ) ''. The investigation about Odebretch against Pemex leader at the time Lozoya, was legally stopped after, a judge controversially ordered it days after. Satiago Nieto said that the PGR was being used as tool by Peña Nieto 's government to tamper elections and benefit Meade by removing Anaya from the race, complaining that it was not neutral the manner in whom the law enforcing organizations had made more effort to investigate Anaya in a month than towards investigating Peña Nieto 's Odebretch money and Meade 's SEDESOL lost money in the last six years. Going as far as saying the PGR and FEPADE were only attacking the rivals of the PRI, and saying the organizations were not being neutral. Javier Duarte went to jail in 2017, though, Cesar Duarte despite the overwhelming evidence against him, in March 2018, the PGR found him innocent of any crime. The successor governor Javier Corral from the PAN, who previously fought against the Televisa law, gave a similar opinion to Santiago Nieto, saying the PGR was being used to protect the allies of Peña Nieto and the PRI, and attack their rivals. AMLO said that not preceding towards Duarte, is one of the main reasons Mexicans lost their faith in the PRI, saying the few ex-governors declared criminals were only to simulate they care. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Santiago Nieto would later reveal that Peña Nieto 's government tried to bribe him to keep him silent, which he refused saying `` Sorry, but I ca n't receive any money from Peña Nieto. '', he received menaces through phone messages with the words `` Death follows you '' and `` Words of advice : stay out of Trouble '', as a consequence he revealed to fear for the life of himself and his family. Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht, accused of corruption and bribes throughout Latin America, is currently under investigation for allegedly overriding the Peña Nieto 's presidential campaign with illegal campaign funds. In exchange oe the campaign money supposedly Peña Nieto gave Odebrecht contracts through state - owned Pemex. An Odebrecht employee told a Brazilian court that he had been asked to pay a bribe to Emilio Lozoya Austin, then head of Pemex. Public image Media gaffes Enrique Peña Nieto has been known for his occasional lapses in memory or gaffes during public events or interviews. The most - noted incident occurred during the International Book Fair of Guadalajara on 3 December 2011. On that day, during a question and answer session, he was asked by an audience member to name three books that had influenced him, being only able to correctly reference the Bible. He then `` rambled, tossing out confused title names, asking for help in recalling authors and sometimes mismatching '' the two others. Other incidents have involved him not being able to recall Benito Juárez 's year of birth, being unable to remember the acronym of the Federal Institute of Access to Information ( IFAI ), changing the date of foundation of the state of Hidalgo, mistaking the capital of the State of Veracruz, mentioning the U.S. presidential candidate `` La señora Hillary Trump '' ( Mrs. Hillary Trump ), among others, of varying degree of substantiation or credibility. However, they have become viral on social media, especially Twitter and a website that counts the number of days since his last gaffe. Allegations of media bias Televisa Televisa, the largest conglomerate broadcasting in Mexico and other Spanish - speaking countries, was accused of tilting their coverage towards Peña Nieto ahead of the July 1 vote. Thousands of university students protested of the perceived bias throughout Mexico City and other cities. On 7 June 2018, The Guardian 's Jo Tuckman reported about dozens of computer files -- forwarded to The Guardian by a source who worked with Televisa but has n't been possible to confirm the authenticity of the documents -- suggesting that Televisa sold favorable coverage to Peña Nieto when he was governor of the state of Mexico and developed a dirty tricks campaign against López Obrador ahead of his first bid for the presidency in 2006. Televisa and the PRI suggested that the documents were false. On 5 February 2013, a joint statement of both The Guardian and Televisa was released, in an attempt to absolve differences between both parties. Time Magazine On the March 24, 2014 weekly Time issue, Peña Nieto was issued on the front cover with the headline, `` Saving Mexico. '' He was credited for having passed social, political, and economic reforms. The front cover was met with widespread disapproval of the Mexican public, prompting various spoofs on social media, even prompting a petition to have him removed from the cover. Evaluations as president and legacy In August 2016, Peña Nieto 's approval ratings dropped to 23 percent ( 74 percent said they disapproved of his performance ), which newspaper Reforma revealed to be the lowest approval rating for a president since they began polling in 1995. The approval decreased to 12 % by January 19, 2017. In the 2018 presidential elections, the lack of popularity and credibity of Peña Nieto 's government, is perceived to have caused his political party the PRI, to suffer it 's most monumental defeat, getting the least percentage of votes in the history of the PRI. The candidate Jose Antonio Meade, and the political party did not win majority of votes within any of the 300 voting locations around the 32 states of Mexico, losing to other political parties. The PRI was also defeated, on each of the nine elections for state governors where MORENA won five, PAN three, and Citizens ' Movement one. The presidency of Mexico went to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, from MORENA. The PRI also lost to MORENA on Atlacomulco, the hometown of Enrique Peña Nieto. Personal life Ancestry show Ancestors of Enrique Peña Nieto 16. Sotero Peña García 8. Eleuterio Severiano Peña López 17. María Rosalía Victoriana López Mejía 4. Francisco Javier Arturo Peña Arcos 18. Eufemio Arcos Valdés 9. Juana Arcos Colín 19. Juana Rafaela Valvina Colín González 2. Gilberto Enrique Peña del Mazo 20. Galo del Mazo y Conde 10. Pedro del Mazo Villasante 21. María de las Mercedes Villasante y Pliego 5. María de los Dolores del Mazo Vélez 22. Antonio Vélez Flores 11. Josefa Vélez Díaz 23. María Marta Julita Margarita Díaz Ortega 1. Enrique Peña Nieto 24. Remigio Nieto Garduño 12. Marcelino Ruperto Nieto Giménez 25. Marta Jiménez Monroy 6. Constantino Enrique Nieto Montiel 26. León Cleofás Antonio Montiel Bermúdez 13. Epigmenia Luz Lina ( or Epigmenia Lina de la Luz ) Montiel Sánchez 27. María Evarista Simona Sánchez García 3. María del Socorro Ofelia Nieto Sánchez 28. José Vidal Anastacio Sánchez Guadarrama 14. Juan Silvano Sánchez Lovera 29. María Mauricia Matiana Lovera Valdez 7. Ofelia Sánchez Colín 30. José María Colín Herrera 15. María de los Remedios Antonia Colín Pérez 31. María Feliciana Úrsula de Jesús Pérez Cárdenas Family life Peña Nieto with family in Atlacomulco on the 2012 election day. In 1993, Peña Nieto married his first wife, Mónica Pretelini ( b. 1963 ) and the couple had three children : Paulina, Alejandro and Nicole. Peña Nieto had two children outside his first marriage ; a son with Maritza Díaz Hernández, and another child, with an undisclosed woman, who died as an infant. Pretelini died on 11 January 2007 as the result of an epileptic episode. Pretelini played a supporting role during the campaign of Peña Nieto 's governorship. In 2008, Peña Nieto began a relationship with Televisa soap opera actress Angélica Rivera, who he had hired to help publicize his political campaign for the State of Mexico. The couple married in November 2011. Peña Nieto is the cousin of Alfredo del Mazo Maza, the current governor of the State of Mexico, of which his grandfather, father, distant uncle Arturo Montiel, as well as Peña Nieto himself, have previously been governors. Honors Pope Francis in the Mexican Palacio Nacional National Order of Juan Mora Fernández, Grand Cross with Gold Plaque, awarded by Laura Chinchilla on 19 February 2013. Order of Prince Henry, Grand Collar, awarded by Aníbal Cavaco Silva on 2 June 2014. Order of Isabella the Catholic, Grand Cross with Collar, awarded by King Juan Carlos I of Spain on 6 June 2014. Order of the Sun of Peru, Grand Cross with Diamonds, awarded by Ollanta Humala on 17 July 2014. Order of the Bath, Honorary Knight Grand Cross, awarded by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on 3 March 2015. Order of the Quetzal, Grand Collar, awarded by Otto Pérez Molina on 13 March 2015. Order of the Southern Cross, Grand Collar, awarded by Dilma Rousseff on 26 May 2015. Order of Charles III, Grand Cross with Collar, awarded by King Felipe VI of Spain on 20 June 2015. Order of King Abdulaziz, Collar, awarded by King Salman of Saudi Arabia on 17 January 2016. Order of the Elephant, Knight, awarded by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on 13 April 2016. Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Grand Cross with Cordon, awarded by Sergio Mattarella on 21 July 2016. Order of the Liberator General San Martín, Grand Collar, awarded by Mauricio Macri on 29 July 2016. 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Question: who is the current president of mexico 2012 to 2018
Answer: Enrique Peña Nieto