Pablo Gómez Álvarez (born 1946, in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician. He was president of the

Party of the Democratic Revolution The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD, es, Partido de la Revolución Democrática, ) is a social democratic political party in Mexico. The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 1986 from the Institut ...

(PRD) and Senator. He played a prominent role in the student's movement of 1968. On October 2, 1968, he was taken by the authorities at the Plaza of the Three Cultures during the

Tlatelolco massacre On October 2, 1968 in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City, the Mexican Armed Forces opened fire on a group of unarmed civilians in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas who were protesting the upcoming 1968 Summer Olympics. The Mexican government and ...

, and was imprisoned until 1971. When he left the jail, he immediately rejoined the student's movements, becoming one of the organizers of the mobilization of June 10. He obtained a degree in

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in 1976. Gómez held the national direction of the

Mexican Communist Party The Mexican Communist Party ( es, Partido Comunista Mexicano, PCM) was a communist party in Mexico. It was founded in 1917 as the Socialist Workers' Party (, PSO) by Manabendra Nath Roy, a left-wing Indian revolutionary. The PSO changed its name ...

and was later elected federal deputy in 1979, being part of a leftist coalition. From 1982 to 1988, he was the president of the

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. Later in 1988, he served as federal deputy again and, while being within the first parliamentary group the

had at the Mexican Congress, he was appointed vicecoordinator of it. From 1992 to 1995, Mr. Gómez held a representative position at the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District. In 1993 he was a main organizer of a

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against a government in the capital of the Republic. He was the founding director of a weekly magazine issued by the PRD from 1992 to 1994. He was elected federal deputy twice from the XXIII Federal Electoral District of Coyoacán (at the Federal District), to run at legislatures LVII and LIX. While being a deputy he positioned himself against the

FOBAPROA Fobaproa (''Fondo Bancario de Protección al Ahorro''; "Savings Protection Banking Fund", in Spanish) was a contingencies fund created in 1990 by the Mexican government, led by then dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to attempt to re ...

, a banking rescue which required spending many resources, and which was actively promoted by members of the PRI and PAN parties; he eventually achieved an opening of the lists of beneficiaries of the FOBAPROA, though without getting any conclusive results before the negative response of the newly created IPAB. As coordinator of the parliamentary group of the PRD, he managed, for the first time ever in Mexico, to modify the budget by 15 billion pesos that were canalized to the federal organizations, the higher education budget and the retirement funds budget, among others. In 1999, Pablo Gómez was temporarily president of the PRD. From 2000 and until 2003, he was the representative of the PRD before the Federal Electoral Institute, where -after an investigation- he filed a lawsuit against the President of the Republic,

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, for the alleged illegal use of resources through the " Amigos de Fox" -literally, "Friends of Fox"- corruption scandal, and he also developed the investigation on the Pemexgate -another corruption scandal-, for which he was able to get the ratification of the fine of 1 billion pesos against some PRI members. He has been in two occasions candidate for Head of Government of the Federal District: in the year 2000, losing before

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, and in 2006, but that time he did yield his candidacy to

Jesús Ortega Jesús Ortega Martínez (born November 5, 1952 in Aguascalientes) is a Mexican Centre-left politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) who has served in the lower and upper house of the Mexican Congress. He was ele ...

in a group called TUCOI (All United With the Left) -against the candidacy of

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-, which they would lose. He is the author of several books such as ''Los gastos secretos del Presidente'', a book in which Pablo Gómez denounces the expenses in dollars of

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. Another of his works is ''México 1988: Disputa por la presidencia y Lucha Parlamentaria'', book in which he narrates how the electoral fraud was consolidated against

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and how it was debated at the Chamber of Deputies. In a book derived from his professional thesis, entitled ''Democracia y crisis política en México'', he makes an argumentative defense of the fight for the political freedom in the country. He is the leader of his own internal political current of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, Movimiento por la Democracia (in English, Movement for Democracy). In it, characters of the PRD concur, such as Inti Muñoz Santini, Alfonso Ramirez Cuellar, Clara Brugada,

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, Jorge Martinez Ramos, Juan N. Guerra Ochoa, Salvador Martinez della Rocca, among others.

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