Guillermo Anaya Llamas
Born
José Guillermo Anaya Llamas

(1968-07-02) 2 July 1968
Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico
Occupation(s)Senator and Deputy
Political partyNational Action Party

José Guillermo Anaya Llamas (born 2 July 1968) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PAN. As of 2013 he served as Deputy of both the LIX and LXII Legislatures of the Mexican Congress representing Coahuila. He also served as Senator during the LX and LXI Legislatures.[1]

Biography

He has a law degree and a master's degree in Corporate Law, both from Universidad Iberoamericana Torreón.

He has been elected deputy to the Congress of Coahuila from 1997 to 1999, where he was coordinator of the PAN bench, federal deputy of the LVIII Legislature from 2000 to 2002 representing the VI Federal Electoral District of Coahuila and municipal president of Torreon from 2003 to 2005. He was the Coordinator of Felipe Calderon Hinojosa's campaign in the state of Coahuila. In September 2006 his daughter was sponsored by Felipe Calderon and Margarita Zavala in Torreon, at that time Guillermo Anaya's sister was the wife of Sergio Villareal el Grande's brother, who attended the meeting and recommended Calderon to appoint Genaro Garcia Luna as head of security.[2] In 2006 Anaya was elected Senator for Coahuila for the LX Legislature.

On October 15, 2007, the then governor of Coahuila, Humberto Moreira, who is currently facing harsh criticism for the illicit debt of the state of Coahuila, accused him, together with Senator Ernesto Saro Boardman and the national president of PAN, Manuel Espino, of having links with drug trafficking,[3] which was denied by the senator who demanded Moreira to prove it or retract it, otherwise he would proceed to sue him criminally.[4] Semanario Proceso published a column allegedly confirming Senator Anaya's family ties with one of the main lieutenants of the Gulf Cartel. However, a defamation lawsuit was filed against the author of said article, which resulted in a ruling in favor of Guillermo Anaya in which the accusations were proven to be false.

On December 9, 2007, the national president of the PAN, Germán Martínez Cázares, proposed him for the position of secretary general of the PAN;[5] he ceased in the same, by instruction of the same Martínez Cázares on June 10, 2008 and became vice-coordinator of the PAN bench in the Senate of the Republic, he was replaced in the general secretariat by Deputy Rogelio Carbajal Tejada after ratification by the National Executive Committee.[6]

In 2011 he was candidate for governor for the parties Acción Nacional and Unidad Democrática de Coahuila, in the electoral process to renew the governorship of Coahuila in the elections of that year being defeated by Rubén Moreira Valdez, brother of the then governor on leave of absence Humberto Moreira.

He was a Plurinominal Deputy from 2012 to 2015 in the LXII Legislature of the Congress of the Union of Mexico in which he was a member of the Civil Protection and National Defense Commissions, as well as Chairman of the Public Safety Commission. In 2016 he was elected candidate for Governor of Coahuila for the second time, being nominated by the Coalition "Alianza Ciudadana por Coahuila", formed by the parties Acción Nacional, Unidad Democrática de Coahuila, Primero Coahuila and Encuentro Social towards the Coahuila State Elections of 2017. Being defeated by Miguel Ángel Riquelme. He sought to annul the election with the slogan "Coahula digno".

In 2017, details were disseminated about an account of Guillermo Anaya, in a bank in the tax haven of Barbados.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Perfil del legislador". Legislative Information System. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
  2. ↑ "El día en que Felipe Calderón apadrinó a la sobrina del capo "Grande"". m-x.com.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-02-09.
  3. ↑ Hilda Fernández Valverde (16 October 2007). "Moreira exige indagar nexos de AN con narco". El Universal. Retrieved 16 October 2007.
  4. ↑ "Si Moreira no se retracta, actuaremos por la vía penal y civil: Anaya Llamas". Milenio. 16 October 2007. Retrieved 16 October 2007.
  5. ↑ Lilia Saúl Rodríguez (9 December 2007). "Proponen a Guillermo Anaya en secretaría general de PAN". El Universal. Retrieved 9 December 2007.
  6. ↑ Ricardo Gómez (10 June 2008). "Confirma Germán Martínez sustitución de Creel". El Universal. Retrieved 10 June 2008.
  7. ↑ "El día en que Felipe Calderón apadrinó a la sobrina del capo "Grande"". m-x.com.mx (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-02-09.


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