Pablo Gómez Álvarez (born 21 October 1946) is a Mexican politician. He was the president 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) and has served in both houses of

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. On 8 November 2021 he was appointed to head the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera, the country's

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Biography

Gómez Álvarez played a prominent role in the student movement of 1968. On 2 October 1968, he was detained by the authorities at the Plaza of the Three Cultures during the Tlatelolco massacre and was imprisoned until 1971. When he left jail, he immediately rejoined the student movement and became one of the organizers of the mobilization of 10 June. He obtained a degree in

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from the

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(UNAM) in 1976. Gómez held the national direction of the

Mexican Communist Party The Mexican Communist Party (, 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 to the ''Mexican Communist ...

(PCM) and was later elected to the

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in the 1979 election as part of a leftist coalition. From 1982 to 1988, he was the president of the

Unified Socialist Party of Mexico The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (, PSUM) was a socialist political party in Mexico. It later became the Mexican Socialist Party () in 1988. History The PSUM was founded in November 1981 by the merger of four socialist parties: *The Mexican ...

(PSUM). In 1988, he has elected as a federal deputy again and, as a member of the first parliamentary group the

had in Congress, he was appointed deputy coordinator of it. From 1992 to 1995, Gómez held a seat in the

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. 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 to the Chamber of Deputies for the 23rd district of the Federal District (Coyoacán) on three occasions (1997, 2003 and 2018), serving in the 57th,

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and 64th congressional sessions. While a deputy he positioned himself against the

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, 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 because of the negative response of the newly created IPAB. As coordinator of the PRD's parliamentary group, he managed, for the first time ever in Mexico, to modify the budget by 15 billion pesos that were channelled to the federal organizations, the higher education budget and the retirement funds budget, among others. In 1999, Gómez was temporarily president of the PRD. From 2000 and until 2003, he was the PRD's representative to the

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, 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'' ("Friends of Fox") corruption scandal. He also pursued an investigation into the

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corruption scandal, through which he was able to get the ratification of the fine of 1 billion pesos against some PRI members. He was a candidate for

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on two occasions: in the year 2000, losing to

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; and again in 2006, but that time he declined his candidacy in favour of Jesús Ortega as the representative of the group TUCOI ("All United With the Left") against the candidacy of the ultimately successful candidate,

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. He was the leader of his own internal political current within the Party of the Democratic Revolution, ''Movimiento por la Democracia'' ("Movement for Democracy"). Other members included

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, Jorge Martínez Ramos, Juan N. Guerra Ochoa, and Salvador Martínez della Rocca. He resigned his membership in the PRD in 2017. He joined the

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(Morena) the following year. On 8 November 2021, President

selected him to head the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera, the country's

Career as author

He is the author of several books such as ''Los gastos secretos del Presidente'', a book that denounces the expenses in dollars of

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. Another of his works is ''México 1988: Disputa por la presidencia y Lucha Parlamentaria'', which narrates how the 1988 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 argues in defense of the fight for the political freedom in the country.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gomez Alvarez, Pablo Living people Presidents of the Party of the Democratic Revolution 1946 births Morena (political party) politicians Mexican Communist Party politicians Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Mexico City Senators of the LX and LXI Legislatures of Mexico Deputies of the LI Legislature of Mexico Deputies of the LVII Legislature of Mexico Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico Deputies of the LXIV Legislature of Mexico