Hortensia Aragón Castillo

Hortensia Aragón Castillo (born 31 May 1960) is a Mexican politician from the Party of the Democratic Revolution. She represents Chihuahua and the first electoral region in the Chamber of Deputies for the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress.

Life Aragón Castillo has a lengthy history of socialist activism and teaching. She joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1976, when she served on the student council of the Rural Normal School of Saucillo, Chihuahua. At the same time, she joined the United Federation of Rural Socialist Students of Mexico.

After making a failed bid in 1997, the PRD sent Aragón, representing the state of Nuevo León in the second region, as a proportional representation deputy to the Chamber of Deputies for the LVIII Legislature between 2000 and 2003. She was a secretary on a special commission that followed the investigation of femicides in Ciudad Juárez and sat on a range of others, including Public Education and Educational Services; Justice and Human Rights; Population, Borders and Migratory Matters; Attention to Vulnerable Groups; and Science and Technology.

From 2013 to 2015, Aragón Castillo served as a local deputy in the LXIV Legislature of the Congress of Chihuahua, heading its PRD faction.

In 2015, the PRD returned Aragón to the Chamber of Deputies, this time representing her home state of Chihuahua, for the LXIII Legislature. She presides over the Public Education and Education Services Commission and sits on those dealing with Government and Gender Equality. and is the alternate deputy to Hortensia.