Leonardo Rodríguez Alcaine (May 1, 1919 – August 6, 2005) was a Mexican trade union leader and a long-serving legislator of the

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. He presided over the

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(CTM) from July 21, 1997, until his death at the age of 86. Born in Texcoco, state of

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, Rodríguez Alcaine was the oldest son of José Rodríguez Ibáñez and Florencia Alcaine. For two years he attended the

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before dropping out and enrolling at a customs officer's academy. At the age of 19 he joined the Federal Electricity Commission (a government-owned electricity monopoly) and got involved in the SUTERM, an electricians trade union with strong links to the government endorsed Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He climbed through the ranks and served 24 years as a PRI legislator (two terms in the

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and four in the

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). On July 21, 1997, almost a month after his predecessor's death, Rodríguez Alcaine was elected president of the Workers' Confederation of Mexico (in

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: ''Confederación de Trabajadores de México, CTM''), the largest confederation of labor unions in the country. He was confirmed in the post by a general assembly on March 8, 1998, and re-elected in February 2004. A day before his death, visibly weakened, he publicly endorsed Roberto Madrazo as the CTM candidate of choice for the 2006 presidential election. He died on August 6, 2005, from heart problems at a private clinic in Mexico City.

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on '' El Universal'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez Alcaine, Leonardo 1919 births 2005 deaths Instituto Politécnico Nacional alumni Mexican trade unionists Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for the State of Mexico Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians 20th-century Mexican politicians People from Texcoco, State of Mexico Deputies of the XLVII Legislature of Mexico Deputies of the XLIX Legislature of Mexico Mexican people of Indigenous peoples descent