Pablo Gómez Álvarez

Pablo Gómez Álvarez (born 21 October 1946) is a Mexican politician. He was the president of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and has served in both houses of Congress. On 8 November 2021 he was appointed to head the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera, the country's financial intelligence unit.

Biography Gómez Álvarez played a prominent role in the student movement of 1968. On 2 October 1968, he was detained by the authorities at the Plaza of the Three Cultures during the Tlatelolco massacre From 2000 and until 2003, he was the PRD's representative to the Federal Electoral Institute, where — after an investigation — he filed a lawsuit against the President of the Republic, Vicente Fox, for the alleged illegal use of resources through the Amigos de Fox ("Friends of Fox") corruption scandal. He also pursued an investigation into the Pemexgate corruption scandal, through which he was able to get the ratification of the fine of 1 billion pesos against some PRI members.

He was a candidate for Head of Government of the Federal District on two occasions: in the year 2000, losing to Andrés Manuel López Obrador; and again in 2006, but that time he declined his candidacy in favour of Jesús Ortega as the representative of the group TUCOI ("All United With the Left") against the candidacy of the ultimately successful candidate, Marcelo Ebrard.

He was the leader of his own internal political current within the Party of the Democratic Revolution, Movimiento por la Democracia ("Movement for Democracy"). Other members included Inti Muñoz Santini, Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar, Clara Brugada, Javier González Garza, Jorge Martínez Ramos, Juan N. Guerra Ochoa, and Salvador Martínez della Rocca.

He resigned his membership in the PRD in 2017. He joined the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) the following year. In the June 2021 mid-term election, he fought to retain his seat in Congress but lost to Gabriel Quadri of the PAN.

On 8 November 2021, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador selected him to head the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera, the country's financial intelligence unit.

Career as author He is the author of several books such as Los gastos secretos del Presidente, a book that denounces the expenses in dollars of Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Another of his works is México 1988: Disputa por la presidencia y Lucha Parlamentaria, which narrates how the 1988 electoral fraud was consolidated against Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and how it was debated at the Chamber of Deputies. In a book derived from his professional thesis, entitled Democracia y crisis política en México, he argues in defense of the fight for the political freedom in the country.