Jorge Herrera Delgado (16 August 1961 – 24 November 2014) was a Mexican politician. A graduate in industrial engineering from the Durango Institute of Technology ( ITD), he was a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He founded the radio station XHITD-FM Estéreo Tecnológico in Durango. He was Mayor of Durango from 2004-2007 and a two-time deputy in the Durango state congress. He was designated by Governor

Jorge Herrera Caldera Jorge Herrera Caldera (born January 8, 1963) is a Mexican who has served as the Governor of Durango since September 2010. He is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party . Herrera was elected Governor of Durango in 2010 with 46.4% of t ...

to head the Durango Department of Education from 15 September 2010 to 7 February 2012. He was elected to represent the fourth district of Durango in the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress (2012-2015). He belonged to following legislative commissions: Urban Development and Territorial Regulation (President), Treasury and Public Expenditure (Secretary), Public Education and Educative Service. From 15 April, he was a delegate on the Executive National Committee of the PRI in Sonora. Delgado died on 24 November 2014 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 53. He was replaced by his alternate deputy, Eduardo Solís Nogueira.

Prizes

First Prize of Information Access in the category to Government Employees by Konrad-Adenaur Stiftung (KAS) Foundation and Libertad de Información, A. C. (LIMAC) in 2005.

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