Javier Villacaña Jiménez | |
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Born |
Oaxaca, Mexico |
Nationality | Mexican |
Occupation | Politician |
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José Javier Villacaña Jiménez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He is the incumbent Mayor of Oaxaca de Juárez. [1] As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Oaxaca as a replacement for Jesús Ángel Díaz Ortega. [2]
During his 2013 mayoral campaign, he was involved in a nationwide controversy by producing a fake professional certificate at the main candidate debate. [3] He publicly claimed to be a lawyer, however no evidence was found of his academic records at any university. [4] In 2015, almost two years after he assumed office as mayor of Oaxaca de Juarez, the Secretary of Education released on its website that Villacaña had earned a law degree that very same year at a local college named Centro Educativo de Puebla, him being at least 50 years old by that time. [5]