Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía

Pablo Salazar Mendiguchía (born in Soyaló, Chiapas, on August 9, 1954) is a Mexican politician.

Born to rural teachers who enrolled to him at the age of 17 at the Autonomous University of Puebla, he obtained the title of Lawyer, Notary and Actuary. In 1978 he returned to Chiapas. He professes the evangelical religion of the Church of the Nazarene as secular member. At the age of 28, in 1982, he married Martha López Camacho, with whom at present has 3 children. For 20 years has exercised as educational in levels media and upper, besides the free exercise of his profession.

In 1978, in his 24 years, he was named General deputy Attorney General of Justice. In 1983, he occupied the charge of legal director of the Office of the Secretary of Education and Culture of the State of Chiapas and established the system to apply exams of opposition for the assignment of plazas of master primary teachers. In 1993, he was appointed Executive Director of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) that was renounced for being in disagreement with the appointment of acquaintances defraud elections.

He was a Senator of the Republic, from 1994 to year 2000. He was a member of the Commission of Agreement and Pacification (COCOPA). He participated in the elaboration of the Law for the Dialogue, the Conciliation, and the Worthy Peace in Chiapas. Also, he intervened in the editing of the Initiative on rights and native culture, emanated of the San Andrés Accords reached in San Andrés Larráinzar, between the federal government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, EZLN.

In the year 2000, his candidacy was supported by an alliance that itself has not repeated anywhere else in the country to meet to social organizations and to eight political parties, of most diverse ideologies: National Action Party, Party of the Democratic Revolution, Labor Party, Ecologist Green Party of Mexico, Convergence of the Democracy, Party of the Nationalist Society, Party of the Democratic Centre, Social Alliance Party.

He was successful in his candidacy, and on August 20, took possession as the governor on December 8, 2000.