Ignacio Vázquez Torres

Ignacio Vázquez Torres (13 August 1939 – 21 September 2023) was a Mexican lawyer and politician. A long-time member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) – which he represented in both chambers of Congress and for which he fought and lost the 1995 gubernatorial election in Guanajuato – he resigned from the party in 2006.

Biography Ignacio Vázquez Torres was born in Pénjamo, Guanajuato, on 13 August 1939. He graduated with a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and joined the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1958.

He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies on three occasions: in the 1967 mid-terms (47th Congress), for Guanajuato's 5th district; in the 1973 mid-terms , for Guanajuato's 8th district; and in the 1979 mid-terms (51st Congress), for Guanajuato's 7th district.

Politically close to Jesús Reyes Heroles, he held positions in the Secretariat of the Interior (SEGOB) and the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP) during Reyes Heroles's tenure in those departments during the presidencies of José López Portillo (1976–1982) and Miguel de la Madrid (1982–1988). From 1988 to 1990, he served as the borough chief of Cuauhtémoc in the Federal District.

He resigned his 47-year membership in the PRI in 2006 over the party's support for the attempts made by Vicente Fox – who had been elected to the presidency at the end of his gubernatorial term – to lift the immunity from prosecution enjoyed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then serving as head of government of the Federal District.

Ignacio Vázquez Torres died on 21 September 2023 at the age of 84. The announcement was made by his niece, , at the time a senator for Guanajuato from the National Regeneration Movement (Morena).