Fidel Herrera Beltran

Fidel Herrera Beltrán (Cosamaloapan, Veracruz; March 7, 1949) is a Mexican lawyer, writer and politician. He is the author of books on constitutional issues and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From December 1, 2004 to November 30, 2010 he served as governor of the state of Veracruz. He was consul of Mexico in Barcelona, Spain from October 19, 2015 to January 2017, the date on which he resigned from the position.

Studies

He completed his basic studies in public schools in the municipalities of the State of Veracruz (Nopaltepec and Ciudad Alemán) as well as in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca; He attended high school in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz and obtained a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1971, after three years of previous studies at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Veracruzana.

• He served as a researcher in Political Science and Public Administration at The London School of Economics and Political Science at the University of London, England.

• Speciality in International Law at the International Institute for Human Rights, Strasbourg, France. At the René Cassin Foundation.

• He studied International Trade at McGill University in Montreal

• Diploma in English Life and Civilization at Polytechnic of Central London, England.

• Professor at FES Acatlán, UNAM.

• In July 2007, he graduated as a Master in Law from Veracruzana University, defending thesis of “Chief of Cabinet for Mexico: An Alternative for Democratic Governance.”
• In October 2010 he obtained the degree of Doctor in Public Law from Veracruzana University with thesis: with the thesis “The Power of Legislative Power: Alternatives to Renew the Mexican Presidential System”.

Beginnings in politics

He completed his basic studies in public schools in the municipalities of the State of Veracruz (Nopaltepec and Ciudad Alemán), as well as in Tuxtepec, Oaxaca; He attended high school in the city of Xalapa, Veracruz and obtained a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1971, after three years of previous studies at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Veracruzana.

He worked as a researcher in Political Science and Public Administration, at The London School of Economics and Political Science, at the University of London, England. He studied Humanitarian Law at the René Cassin Foundation in Strasbourg, France and studied International Trade at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

In July 2007 he graduated as a Master of Law from the Universidad Veracruzana, defending the thesis of "Chief of Staff for Mexico: An Alternative for Democratic Governance".

With the thesis "The power of the Legislative Branch: alternatives to renew the Mexican presidential system", he obtained the Doctorate in Public Law from the Universidad Veracruzana, in October 2010.

Positions as senator

• Of Senators Fidel Herrera Beltrán and Noemí Zoila Guzmán Lagunes, of the parliamentary group of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which contains a point of agreement that calls on the federal executive branch to leave the 20% tax exempt from dust prepared with non-nutritive sweeteners.

• Chairman of the Special Commission for the Follow-up to the Expropriation of Sugar Ingenuities.

• Member of the Jurisdictional Governance Commission and Bicameral Library System.

• Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Congress of the Union, in the first and second recess, (2001 and 2002).

Controversy

In 2007, the amphetamine czar, the Chinese Zhenli Ye Gon, was found with a credential signed by Fidel Herrera Beltrán, which accredited him as legislative liaison of the Senate, and although he indicated many authorities as his friends and contacts (including the then governor of the State of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto), only Fidel Herrera Beltran spoke of having financed his campaign to be governor

In the recordings presented by César Nava, you can hear that Herrera Beltrán asks him to write a letter to take to the Secretary of the Interior and indicate that one hundred patrols are needed for the north of the entity.

In another recording, Herrera asks one of his political operators for cash to support the campaign of Sara Luz Herrera Cano, PRI candidate for the municipal presidency of Alvarado, Veracruz. "Now is when we have to give her all our support," she says.

The Excelsior newspaper announced that Herrera used public resources from Veracruz to support PRI candidates in the elections, following which the politician withdrew copies of the newspaper from the entity, according to Twitter users.

He was pointed out on the Forbes magazine website by blogger journalist Dolia Estévez as one of the "10 Most Corrupt People in Mexico" To clarify the falsity of the note, Fidel Herrera Beltrán sent a explanatory letter to the directors of Forbes magazine regarding the information stated in the article, to make rectification, the letter can be viewed on different news sites such as El Informador and Plumas Libres according to the article in Punto Revista magazine, although This letter never reached the journalist's offices or those of Forbes.

According to the magazine Proceso, the former governor contributed, along with Miguel Alemán Velasco and Javier Duarte de Ochoa, to the debt of the state of Veracruz in 11 years (from 2000 to 2011) having had an accumulated growth of 67,000 %, according to the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP).

On June 24, 2015, the Federal Police recorded a telephone call between Adrián Ruvalcaba Suárez and Juan Carlos Zaragoza Ríos (Televisa employee) where, together with Alejandro Emiliano Zapata, they created a criminal network to denigrate and attack through the social networks and television, to the enemies of those who paid for their services, a client of theirs being Fidel Herrera who for some time hired them to create web pages and harassment campaigns against the journalist Carmen Aristegui, and sought to hide a photo of him riding to the side of a known drug trafficker, according to the page SinEmbargo.mx

In November 2017, the Human Rights Clinic of the University of Texas School of Law published its report "Control... over the entire state of Coahuila." In this, Herrera is accused along with another series of politicians and soldiers of giving favors to the Los Zetas cartel, helping them launder money through state and federal contracts, and public tenders, with Pemex and the Federal Electricity Commission, in addition to doing contacts with the Federal Police of Mexico, state and municipal police, and members of the Mexican Army so that they would ignore their crimes in the states of Veracruz and Coahuila, in the years when said cartel was the most powerful in Mexico.

Federal Government

• Technical secretary of the Coordinating Committee of the Social Service of Higher Education Students (SPP).
• Director General and Trust Delegate of the National People's Rooms Fund (FONAPO-SEDUE); and President of the Board of Directors of Real Estate Administrator, SA.
• Senior Officer at the LIII Legislature of the Chamber of Deputies.
• Senior Officer, Secretariat for Urban Development and Ecology.
• Coordinator of advisers of the Secretary of Government and for the Promotion of Social Participation of the same secretariat.
• PRI leader in Veracruz

Legislator

• Federal MP for the XLIX Legislature in Cosamaloapan, Ver.,
• Federal Representative for the LI Legislature in Pánuco, Ver.,
• Federal MP for the LV Legislature in Cosamaloapan, Ver., and the LVII Legislatura in Boca del Río, Veracruz.
• Senator of the Republic during the LVIII and LIX Legislatures