Alexandro Martínez Camberos

Alexandro Martínez Camberos (22 June 1916 – 7 February 1999) was a Mexican poet, writer, lawyer and judge. He published articles and essays in several newspapers and wrote books on poetry, jurisprudence and social issues.

Biography He was born in Durango City, capital of the Mexican state of Durango, on 22 June 1916, in the middle of the Mexican revolution, son of Benito Martínez, a dentist, and Elena Camberos, a pianist. At an early age he became interested in social issues and showed writing aptitude for prose and verse. He studied law at the Juárez University of the State of Durango (UJED), graduating in 1939, and obtained the doctorate at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) en 1953.

He became professor at the UJED, district judge in Durango from 1962 to 1967, legal consultant to the federal Secretary of Industry and Trade, head of the Department of Constitutional Protection of the same unit, first secretary of the First Circuit Court, plurinominal federal deputy from 1988 to 1991 in the LIV Legislature of the Mexican Congress and member of the UJED Legal Research Institute in the nineties.

He died on 7 February 1999 in Mexico City, where he lived for more than 30 years.

Literary work Alexandro Martínez Camberos published during more than 60 years countless articles and essays in various newspapers and wrote books of poetry, jurisprudence and social issues.