Manuel Rafael Huerta Ladrón de Guevara (born 12 July 1960) is a Mexican politician. He has been elected to the federal

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and the

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and was a founding member of the

Party of the Democratic Revolution The Party of the Democratic Revolution (, , PRD) is a state-level social democracy, social democratic political party in Mexico (previously national, until 2024). The PRD originated from the Democratic Current, a political faction formed in 198 ...

(PRD) in 1989 and of the

National Regeneration Movement The National Regeneration Movement (), commonly referred to by its syllabic abbreviation Morena (), is a major left-wing political party in Mexico, often described as oscillating between social democracy and populism. As of 2023, it is the la ...

(Morena) in 2011 (when it was a civil association rather than a political party).

Life

Huerta Ladrón de Guevara graduated with a law degree from the

Universidad Veracruzana Veracruzana University () is a public autonomous university located in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Established in 1944, the university is one of the most important in the southeast region of México. Its academic organization is a structure ...

. He was a plurinominal federal deputy for the third region in the 55th Congress (1991–94) with the PRD and the 52nd Congress (2012–15) representing the Federal District's second district for the PT and, after February 2015, for Morena. Between 2015 and 2018, Huerta was the president of the state executive committee of Morena in Veracruz. He resigned from the party committee on 27 November 2018 in order to accept President

Andrés Manuel López Obrador Andrés Manuel López Obrador (; born 13 November 1953), also known by his initials AMLO, is a Mexican former politician, political scientist, public administrator and writer who served as the 65th president of Mexico from 2018 to 2024. He se ...

's invitation to become the coordinator of federal programs in the state. He was elected as one of Veracruz's senators in the 2024 Senate election, occupying the second place on the '' Sigamos Haciendo Historia'' coalition's two-name formula.

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1960 births Living people Politicians from Mexico City 20th-century Mexican lawyers Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians Labor Party (Mexico) politicians 20th-century Mexican politicians Morena (political party) politicians Deputies of the LXII Legislature of Mexico Universidad Veracruzana alumni {{Mexico-politician-Morena-stub