Francisco Labastida Ochoa

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Labastida Ochoa (right) together with María de Lourdes and the singer, composer and actor José Ángel Espinoza

Francisco Labastida Ochoa (born August 14, 1942 in Los Mochis , state of Sinaloa ) is a Mexican politician of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), who was governor of Sinaloa between 1987 and 1992 , minister several times and a PRI candidate in 2000 for the presidential election .

Life

Labastida Ochoa, a younger brother of the philosopher Jaime Labastida , studied economics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and joined the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in 1964. After postgraduate studies in Chile , he worked at the Latin American Institute for Economic and Social Planning (Instituto Latinoamericano de Planeación Económica y Social) , an institute of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean CEPAL (Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe) .

Labastida Ochoa was appointed on December 1, 1982 by President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado as Minister for Energy, Mining and Semi- State Industry ( Secretario de Energía, Minas e Industria Paraestatal ) in his cabinet. He held this ministerial office until April 17, 1986 and was then replaced by Alfredo del Mazo González . He was then on January 1, 1987 successor to Antonio Toledo Corro as governor of Sinaloa and exercised the function of governor of this state until December 31, 1992, whereupon Renato Vega Alvarado succeeded.

On January 22, 1995, Labastida Ochoa was appointed by President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León to his cabinet and replaced Arturo Warman as Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development ( Secretario de Agricultura, Ganadería y Desarrollo Rural ) . He held this ministerial office until his replacement by Romárico Arroyo on January 3, 1998, and took over from Emilio Chuayffet as Minister of the Interior ( Secretario de Gobernación ) in the Zedillo cabinet. On May 21, 1999, Diódoro Carrasco Altamirano succeeded him in this ministerial office.

In the presidential election on July 2, 2000 , Labastida Ochoa was a candidate for the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). He achieved 13,579,718 votes (36.1 percent), but was defeated by Vicente Fox of the Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) who accounted for 42.5 percent. This is the first time since 1946 that the PRI candidate has not been elected President of Mexico.

On September 1, 2006, Labastida Ochoa became a member of the Senate and represented the state of Sinaloa until August 31, 2012.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mexican States (rulers.org)
  2. ↑ July 2000 (rulers.org)
personal data
SURNAME Labastida Ochoa, Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican politician (PRI)
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Mochis , Sinaloa