Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez

Guillermo Héctor Zúñiga Martínez (December 18, 1942 – April 23, 2015) was a Mexican politician and member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies for the fifth district of Veracruz.

Professional career Zúñiga founded and was the first president of the oratory institute "Belisario Domínguez" in his native Veracruz. He worked as a professor of history and civics at the Hidalgo junior high school, Erasmo Castellanos Quinto high school, at a Sephardic school, and at the National Youth Institute (INJUVE).

After finishing his law degree at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), he worked as a consulting lawyer in the Directorate of Legal Subjects of the Secretariat of the Interior, as a consulting lawyer in the Directorate of Legal Affairs of the Presidency and as the state director of education, the youngest ever, during the governorship of Rafael Hernández Ochoa. He updated the education law and created the Centers of Higher Studies of Rural Education, the Veracruz Pedagogical University and the Institute of Pedagogical Normalization. In 2013, a group of UPAV alumni in Coatzacoalcos publicly claimed that since universities were not accepting UPAV degrees and coursework, the institution was defrauding students.

Zúñiga was survived by his wife Guillermina, and his children, Grecia María Zúñiga Pérez, Américo (the current municipal president of Xalapa), Guillermo and Anilú Zúñiga Martínez.