Marco Antonio Bernal

Andrés Marco Antonio Bernal Gutiérrez (30 November 1953 – 27 December 2025) was a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). In 1985–1987 he was the federal government's Commissioner for Peace for negotiations in the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. He later represented his party in both chambers of the Congress of the Union but was unsuccessful on the two occasions he sought its nomination to compete for the governorship of his home state of Tamaulipas.

Life and career Marco Antonio Bernal Gutiérrez was born on 30 November 1953 in the border city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. In 1977 he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the Universidad Veracruzana and, in 1979, a master's in political science from El Colegio de México.

In the 1997 mid-term election he was elected as a national-list senator to the 57th Congress.

Bernal sought the PRI's nomination for the governorship of Tamaulipas for the first time in 1998 but lost to Tomás Yarrington.

In 2016, he again contended to be the PRI's candidate for governor of Tamaulipas but the nomination went instead to Baltazar Hinojosa;

In his later years, Bernal withdrew from politics and dedicated his efforts to the cultivation and export of citrus fruits.