Javier Corral Jurado

Javier Corral Jurado (born 2 August 1966) is a Mexican politician affiliated with Morena. Formerly affiliated with the National Action Party (PAN), he served as Governor of Chihuahua from 2016 to 2021. He has served in politics since the early 1980s, including six terms between the Chamber of Deputies and Senate. Corral also specializes in communications and has a long career as a columnist and founder of various publications; he also was instrumental in the successful constitutional challenge that struck down the Televisa Law. In 1979, he traveled to the White House to receive the International Youth Journalism Award from President Jimmy Carter. From 1982 to 1983, he served as Secretary General of the Chihuahua State Association of Journalists. In August 2007, the court declared the law invalid. His confrontational stance against traditional broadcasters continued; in 2007, the Federal Electoral Tribunal cleared Corral of responsibility over a debt of 1 million pesos allegedly owed to Televisa stemming from advertising time bought during his 2004 run for governor.

In 2009, Corral returned to the Chamber of Deputies in the LXI Legislature,

Governor of Chihuahua Corral launched a failed campaign ran for governor in 2004 under a PAN-PCD-PRD coalition banner.

A dispute over water distribution at La Boquilla Dam in September 2020 left two demonstrors dead at the hands of the National Guard.

Between October 2016 and January 2021 there were 10,042 homicides, of which 95% have gone unpunished, according to the Attorney General's Office (FGE) and the State Judiciary. More than half the murders were in Ciudad Juárez, mostly attributed to organized crime. Ten percent of the victims were women. Officially 3,513 people have been reported missing, although civil groups say the true number is much higher; 52% of the missing cases have occurred during the Coral administration. Also since 2016 narcofosas (mass graves attributed to organized crime) have been discovered — in Cuauhtémoc, Valle de Juárez, El Navajo creek (December 2016), Madera (June 2017), Guadalupe Municipality (June 2018), and Mariano Matamoros (February 2019).

Other work In 1987 and 1988, Corral was a member of the company Administración Profesional de Negocios; in 1989, he co-founded Meridiano 107. He also worked for a variety of local and national media outlets including El Fronterizo and El Universal, as well as publications in the field of communications such as Revista Mexicana de Comunicación and Etcétera.