Fernando Baeza Melendez

Fernando Baeza Meléndez (Delicias, Chihuahua, January 21, 1942). He is a Mexican politician, belonging to the Institutional Revolutionary Party who held the Governorship of the state of Chihuahua between 1986 and 1992, and ambassador of Mexico in Costa Rica since January 2014.

Fernando Baeza is a lawyer graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, within his political career he was Municipal President of Delicias, Chihuahua, thus becoming the first president born in the same municipality. In addition to holding positions as Federal Deputy and Deputy Attorney General of the Republic, a position he held when he was nominated as a candidate for the Governorship, facing the PAN candidate Francisco Barrio Terrazas in the elections, and officially winning the elections, although his opponents have denounced that his victory was the product of electoral fraud, this being supported by various national and international media.

His government was characterized by the construction of large public works, mainly road infrastructure. His successor was Francisco Barrio, during whose government he remained away from politics. In 1998, he promoted Patricio Martínez García as a candidate for Governor for the PRI, with whom he later had a breakup and distanced himself from public life again, even leaving the country. and lived in Costa Rica for several years. In 2004, his nephew José Reyes Baeza Terrazas was elected governor of Chihuahua, with which he returned to public activity and in 2006 he was elected senator for Chihuahua in the first minority after failing to obtain the majority of the votes.