Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera

Manlio Fabio Beltrones Rivera (born August 30, 1952) is a Mexican economist and elected official, former member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), a senator from Sonora since September 1, 2024, and a former federal deputy from September 1, 2012, to August 14, 2015. He was the president of the Senate during its 2006 to 2007 session and was reelected to that position for the 2010 to 2011 term. He served as Governor of Sonora from October 22, 1991, to September 12, 1997. He served two terms as federal deputy. He was the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2004 to 2005. From 2015 to June 2016, he was the president of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Career From an early age, Beltrones entered public life. He joined the PRI at 18, while studying economics at the UNAM. In addition to his electoral posts, he was president of the PRI's state committee in Sonora (Presidente del Comité Directivo Estatal del PRI); Secretary of Government (Secretario de Gobierno); undersecretary of the federal Interior Ministry (Subsecretario de Gobernación) and Secretary General of the PRI's most influential membership branch, Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Populares, or CNOP.

In 1981, Beltrones married Sylvia Sánchez. The two have one daughter, , a proportional representation federal deputy for the PRI. She is married to Pablo Escudero Morales, a Green Party senator. However, on November 20, 2011, he announced that he was not doing so and this paved way for his fellow Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)'s president-elected Enrique Peña Nieto. Beltrones was widely expected to become the leader of PRI after its former president controversially stepped down in early December 2011.

Later political career Beltrones Rivera won election as one of Sonora's senators in the 2024 Senate election, occupying the first place on the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition's two-name formula.

Controversy In 1994, incoming president Ernesto Zedillo requested that the United States provide his administration with the names of Mexican officials suspected of corruption who should not be considered for positions in the new administration. The United States indicated that Beltrones was suspected of using his power as governor of Sonora to protect drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes.