Javier Villacaña Jiménez

José Javier Villacaña Jiménez is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He is the incumbent Mayor of Oaxaca de Juárez. 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.

During his 2013 mayoral campaign, he was involved in a nationwide controversy by producing a fake professional certificate at the main candidate debate. He publicly claimed to be a lawyer, however no evidence was found of his academic records at any university. 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.