Ernestina Godoy: The boss that the FGR did not know it needed
It seems that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) finally updated its software and went from an archaic operating system to one with, you know, female representation at the highest level. At 71 years old and with a career that has more twists and turns than the plot of a soap opera, Ernestina Godoy has just been appointed prosecutor for jurisdictional control, breaking that glass ceiling that in Mexican politics sometimes seems to be made of reinforced concrete. The farewell gesture of Alejandro Gertz Manero before leaving for his new life as ambassador was, basically, passing the baton to the first woman to lead the institution. A plot twist that no one saw coming, but that we were all waiting for.
The lawyer, proud graduate of UNAM, is not going to settle into the chair too calmly. For now she is in charge of the office, waiting for the Senate to give her the definitive ‘yes’ in the coming days, a procedure that promises to be more entertaining than the TikTok feed. Its arrival is not an isolated movement; It is the key piece to reinforce the security cabinet of President Claudia Sheinbaum, consolidating that National Security Strategy that sounds good on paper and that now needs strategic allies in key positions to stop being a nice slogan and become a reality.
From the bases of Morena to the top of the FGR
To understand the new boss, we must trace her political roots, which are more intertwined with the fourth transformation than the Instagram algorithm is with our data. Godoy has been a close figure to both Andrés Manuel López Obrador – with whom he founded Morena – and to Claudia Sheinbaum during her tenure as head of Government of Mexico City. His time at the Capital Prosecutor’s Office was not a simple procedure; made her a fundamental piece in Mexican political chess, the one that moves the pieces without making noise but with a clear strategy.
Her resume is as long and diverse as the to-do list of a functional adult: local deputy for the PRD, federal deputy for Morena, capital prosecutor from 2018 to 2020 and, later, legal advisor for Sheinbaum. In each of these positions, he played a decisive role in negotiations and legal strategies of the federal government, demonstrating that he knows the system from the inside and knows exactly where to tighten the screws to make things work, or at least, to stop them creaking.
A career with high-impact cases
But let’s talk about the juicy part: his achievements. During his tenure at the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office, Godoy did not dedicate himself to filing papers. It prompted high-profile investigations that sounded louder than a K-pop group in a stadium. Among them, the case of the so-called Real Estate Cartel stands out, which involved leaders of the PAN, demonstrating that the threads of power and real estate are sometimes woven with the same needle. Another case that marked his management was that of the Justice prosecutor of Morelos, Uriel Carmona Gándara, linked to the feminicide of Ariadna Fernanda López. It is these antecedents that paint the profile of an official who does not shy away from thorny cases, those that others prefer to file in the ‘too complicated’ drawer.
His appointment is more than a simple change in the government payroll; It’s a message. A message that the rules of the game in the administration of justice are changing, with a leader at the helm whose career suggests that she came to make waves, not to be a footnote in the history of the FGR. The challenge is not small: leading an institution that bears the weight of citizen distrust and transforming it into a pillar of credibility. Something like trying to get your ex to return the books you lent him: a difficult mission, but not impossible.
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