PROFECO


The Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor, or Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Consumer, is an organization of the Mexican government led by on the Attorney General. Mexico became the second Latin American nation to pass a Federal Consumer Protection Law, on February 5, 1976, and later became the first to create an Office for the Prosecutor. By 1982, the Office had 32 representations, one in each state and one in the Federal District. PROFECO has in total 51 offices all over the republic, and its main office is in Mexico City. The most recent reform of this federal law was signed by the Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto at the beginning of 2018.PROFECO works together with other organizations like CPSC from the United States. and Health Canada from Canada to guarantee that imported products are safe for consumers. In February 2018, the representatives of these three organizations met in the U.S. to sign a memorandum of understanding. With this agreement these three countries compromised to ensure the quality of imported products for south and North American consumers. The representative of PROFECO in this meeting was the attorney , who has been the federal consumer attorney since August 2017.

Objectives

NamePositionSworn in
Rogelio Cerda PerezFederal consumer procuratorAugust 2017
Raymundo Rodríguez DiegoVerification Deputy AttorneyApril 2017
Pedro Fernando Flamand GutiérrezGeneral Coordinator of Administration--
Omar Cervantes RodríguezGeneral Director of Social CommunicationOctober 2017
Rafael Ochoa MoralesLegal Deputy AttorneyMarch 2016
María de los Ángeles Jasso CisnerosDeputy Attorney GeneralSeptember 2017
Héctor Alejandro Gutiérrez OrdazGeneral Director of Planning and EvaluationNovember 2015
Carlos de Jesús Ponce BeltránDeputy Attorney for TelecommunicationsSeptember 2015
Juan Carlos Estefan MafudGeneral Coordinator of Education and DisseminationNovember 2017
Humberto Lepe LepeGeneral Director of DelegationsAugust 2017