Fernando Baeza Meléndez
Governor of Chihuahua and Member of the Senate of Mexico
About Fernando Baeza Meléndez
Born 1942. Fernando Baeza Meléndez is a Mexican politician and diplomat.
Fernando Baeza Meléndez (born January 21, 1942, in Delicias, Chihuahua) is a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Baeza served as the Governor of Chihuahua from 1986 to 1992.
In the 1985 mid-terms he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies to represent the sixth district of Chihuahua, but he resigned his seat to seek the governorship. In 1986, he was elected governor of Chihuahua, defeating Francisco Barrio of the National Action Party (PAN) in a controversial gubernatorial election allegedly marred by voting irregularities. (Barrio succeeded Baeza as governor in 1992.)
Governor Baeza signed separate bilateral treaties with Texas Governor Ann Richards and New Mexico Governor Bruce King in June 1991. Under the treaties, Chihuahua agreed to improve free trade, tourism, and economic links between the border states.
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Governor of Chihuahua and Member of the Senate of Mexico
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Fernando Baeza Meléndez was born on 21 January 1942 in Delicias.
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