Francisco Labastida
Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox officeholder Francisco Labastida Ochoa (Template:IPA; born 14 August 1942) is a Mexican economist and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who became the first presidential candidate of his party to lose a presidential election, which he did in the 2000 presidential election to Vicente Fox.
Labastida was born to Gloria Ochoa de Labastida and Eduardo Labastida Kofahl. His wife, Teresa Uriarte, was director of UNAM's Institute of Aesthetics Research. His great-grandfather fought on the side of Mexican President Benito Juárez in the War of Reform, and his grandfather was Governor of Sinaloa as well as federal deputy.
Labastida served as governor of Sinaloa (1987–1992), defeating Manuel Clouthier of the National Action Party. During and after his tenure as governor, Labastida was accused of protecting Sinaloan drug traffickers and overlooking their activities.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Labastida was Secretary of Energy during the administration of Miguel de la Madrid. He was also Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of the Interior during the administration of Ernesto Zedillo.
After losing the 2000 presidential election, he served as president of the Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo de México. In the 2006 general election, he was elected to the Senate for the PRI, representing Sinaloa.<ref name="senate">Labastida profile at the Senate Template:Webarchive</ref>
Publications
- Las Razones de la Política
- Planeación para el Desarrollo
Awards
- National Order of Merit Grand Officer, of the government of France
- Great Cross of Brazil
- Medal of the Mexican Supreme Court
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- 1942 births
- Living people
- Mexican people of Basque descent
- Governors of Sinaloa
- Mexican economists
- Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
- Candidates in the 2000 Mexican presidential election
- Secretaries of the interior of Mexico
- Secretaries of agriculture of Mexico
- Secretaries of energy of Mexico
- Politicians from Sinaloa
- People from Los Mochis
- National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni
- Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
- 21st-century Mexican politicians
- 20th-century Mexican politicians