Fidel Herrera Beltrán ( Nopaltepec, Veracruz, March 7, 1949) is a Mexican politician and former governor of the state of

Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...

. A member of

Institutional Revolutionary Party The Institutional Revolutionary Party ( es, Partido Revolucionario Institucional, ; abbr. PRI) is a political party in Mexico that was founded in 1929 and held uninterrupted power in the country for 71 years, from 1929 to 2000, first as the Nati ...

(PRI), he was elected governor in 2004. Prior to that, he was deputy in the XLIX Legislature for

Cosamaloapan Cosamaloapan is a city located in the plains of the Sotavento zone in the central zone of the State of Veracruz, about 240 km from state capital Xalapa. It has a surface of 323.26 km2. It is located at . The poet Manuel Carpio was born in Cos ...

, LI Legislature for Pánuco, LV Legislature for

and LVII Legislature for Boca del Río and a senator representing Veracruz in the LVIII Legislature. He is a lawyer by profession, having attended law school at

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...

. In 2013, ''

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'' magazine named Herrera as one of the 10 most corrupt Mexican politicians, citing his alleged links to the

Los Zetas Los Zetas (, Spanish for "The Zs") is a Mexican criminal syndicate, regarded as one of the most dangerous of Mexico's drug cartels. They are known for engaging in brutally violent "shock and awe" tactics such as beheadings, torture, and indiscri ...

drug-trafficking cartel.

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Official Biography (Spanish): http://portal.veracruz.gob.mx/portal/page?_pageid=153,4200549&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL Governors of Veracruz Living people 1949 births Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Politicians from Veracruz National Autonomous University of Mexico alumni Alumni of the London School of Economics 20th-century Mexican politicians 21st-century Mexican politicians {{Mexico-deputy-InstitutionalRevolutionary-1940s-stub