About José Murat Casab
Born 1952. José Murat Casab is a Mexican politician.
José Murat Casab (; born October 18, 1947) is a Mexican politician and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He was Governor of Oaxaca and is a Diputado Federal elected from the ranks of Alliance for Mexico of Institutional Revolutionary Party-Ecologist Green Party of Mexico. He is of Assyrian descent, born to a Chaldean Catholic family from the village of Tel Keppe, Iraq.
Murat was a controversial governor but a competent political speaker. After he assumed office on December 1, 1998 a series of scandals tarnished the governor's office.
He participated in the important negotiations that led to the implementation of the Pact for Mexico and was appointed to be part of the Governing Council of the Pact for Mexico.
In 2003, he donated the Statue of Benito Juárez to the city of Fresno, California.
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Mexican politician
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José Murat Casab was born on 18 October 1952 in Oaxaca.
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José Murat Casab is a politician.
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José Murat Casab is Mexican.
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