Carmen Dorantes Martínez

Carmen Dorantes Martínez (born 16 July 1957) is a Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party politician who served as a senator from the state of Hidalgo in the Senate of the Republic as part of the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress from 2015 to 2018. She was previously the general director of the Hidalgo Women's Institute, the Coordinator of Support for Hidalguenses in the State and Abroad, and a delegate of the State Delegate in Hidalgo of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food.

Biography On 16 July 1957, Dorantes Martínez was born in Huichapan, Hidalgo, Mexico. She graduated from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana with a bachelor's degree in biology. Dorantes Martínez managed, promoted and coordinated with the separate institutions of the agricultural field sector programmes supporting the producers and organisations in Hidalgo. She was on the Commission for Rural Development as a secretary, was a member of each of the Commission for Communications and Transportation; Commission for Culture; Commission for Treasury and Public Credit; Commission for For Gender Equality and the Commission for Third Work Commission: Treasury and Public Credit; Agriculture and Development; Communications; and, Public Works. Dorantes Martínez left the Senate on 31 August 2018. Dorantes Martínez supported the 2016 initiative to adjust the Constitution of Mexico to make every Mexico public institution provide disabled people better accessibility and continue protecting their rights. In April 2017, she asked the Mexico City government for a detailed report of traffic violations for analysis of its effectiveness in reducing accidents and in the collection of money in 2016. Dorantes Martínez proposed to the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation the foundation of a publicly-accessible digital National Atlas of Road Risk to stop criminal incidence and guarantee user safety.

She presented a point of agreement to rehabilitate Mexico's national beach water for fishing and commerce by creating awareness to swimmers of their sustainable use. Dorantes Martínez voted to pass the General Law of Social Communication into law in April 2018. In June 2018, Dorantes Martínez asked Mexico's federal and state governments to include in their 2019 Expenditure Budget proposals resources for the support of gender equality and asked the Chamber of Deputies and local Congresses to approve gender budgets for the advancement towards substantive equality between men and women in compliance with the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals. She demanded PROFECO better surveillance mechanisms and sanction the unjustified increases of the prices of products.